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Andrew Hammond ahammond-swQf4SbcV9C7WVzo/KQ3Mw at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 16 20:41:45 UTC 2005


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Byron L. Sonne wrote:
|  > Adding em64t to the mix becomes simply
|
| I'd be careful about the use of the word 'simply'... I don't design
| cores or fab chips for a living, but I'm gonna have to guess that it's
| probably fiendishly complex. Intel doesn't fuck things up because
| they're stupid or lazy ;)

Not stupid? One word: "Itanium". I mean really... VLIW architecture?
Didn't the research on that in the late 80's pretty much say that the
idea, while cool, didn't work too well? I guess it makes sense if you
want a chip that's brutally difficult (and hence expensive) to reverse
engineer.

Or maybe it shouldn't be "stupid" so much as "myopically arrogant". And
Lennart's comments about chip design being run by marketing ring true
too. Their engineering department must be pretty awesome to make
anything that works in that kind of environment.

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