I by rethunk I think that application specific architectures/dynamic reconfiguring architectures will be the eventual way to go but that's a ways off for cost reasons.As far as seeing new architectures on embedded devices I don't think that intel/amd will ever be able to exactly creep into the devices realm. Xscale being my point in case and it subsequently being discontinued. As far as the embedded realm most running a risc architecture for power. I haven't really seen anything radically different from this(atmel,arm,ubicom...) . Its also much easier to make compilers for. The only exception is the new system on chips that they're rolling out I think that there may be some interesting architecture opitimizations that people haen't quite exploited yet maybe something there but on dedicated processors I don't see any future new architecture arising for devices.
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I by rethunk I think that application specific architectures/dynamic reconfiguring architectures will be the eventual way to go but that's a ways off for cost reasons.As far as seeing new architectures on embedded devices I don't think that intel/amd will ever be able to exactly creep into the devices realm. Xscale being my point in case and it subsequently being discontinued. As far as the embedded realm most running a risc architecture for power. I haven't really seen anything radically different from this(atmel,arm,ubicom...) . Its also much easier to make compilers for. The only exception is the new system on chips that they're rolling out I think that there may be some interesting architecture opitimizations that people haen't quite exploited yet maybe something there but on dedicated processors I don't see any future new architecture arising for devices.