User: Dwain_Snyders

Next generation of AMD processors.

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The stuff that we're busy writing the preprocessing code for is truly out of this world. It'll make the PPC look sick and will be in test-phase before the IA64 is out.

To name some of the features, it will use VLIW technology (I am currently working on optimized compilers for firmware code for the new VLIW-based processing engines) and the lithography techniques used will be the first of the new-generation of that technology. (Intel will bring out a new chip based on it too, but not before AMD).

PPC RISC chips were good in their day, but are being overtaken by other technologies and in the future will become almost irrelevant.

64-bit only as good as the software

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For example, to implement a double primitive on a new architecture could be done independently of the number of bits in the processor stack.

[IF] CHAR " PARSE ASM" ENVIRONMENT? 0= [IF] : 2CONSTANT CREATE SWAP , , DOES> DUP @ SWAP CELL+ @ ; [ELSE] DROP : 2CONSTANT CREATE SWAP , , DOES> ;CODE 0 0XB PUSH, 1 CELLS [4X0] 40X MOV, NEXT, END-CODE

Of course, it's easier to optimize if there are 64 actual bits available to address each instruction. The point is although 64-bit processors are great, there are a lot of other factors to consider when reviewing processors (or operating systems running on the said processors for that matter).