I thought the second sentence made that clear but apparently not.

Its always going to be relevant, even if only emulated, simply because of how many code bases are stuck on x86/x86-64.

Open sourcing it and all of its extensions solves the licensing problems of not only itself, but Arm, while providing a battle tested architecture with decades of maturity.

Also imagine the fun FPGA consoles could have with that?

If only there was an understood way to convey sarcasm.

There is /s but I opted not to use it.
Using it makes the sarcasm less "fun"/rewarding for me.

I am quite surprised at the amount of people that think people exist that would praise a monopoly and celebrate shareholder value. Sadly people thinking that means that they have encountered people who hold such beliefs seriously. Which is quite sad.

That story is really sad. To me it seems like a failing of the parents/education system to not teach the son who was 17 that selling a kidney is a bad idea.

I am quite surprised at the amount of people that think people exist that would praise a monopoly and celebrate shareholder value.

If you’ve never been to the US, don’t. Half the population unironically hold those beliefs as sacred.

This isn't completely true. Even a basic instruction like ADD has multiple implementations depending on the memory sources.

For example, if the memory operand is in RAM, then the ADD needs to be decoded to include a fetch before the actual addition. RISC doesn't change that fact.

Oh I have no issues with it being relevant in the same sense the Z80 68k or 6502 still being relevant. Just not part of a controlling duopoly.

Okay celebrating shareholder value I get in an indoctrinated pure* capitalist society.

But praising a monopoly? Wasn't that one of the main points capitalism should prevent?

The free market brings about competitors when they are needed.

Which does not hold true in reality due to various reasons and dynamics like entry cost...

Edit: These two are related as monopoly -> big shareholder value. Still the free market should prevent monopolies. Sooo Ahhh.

Yes, but RISC knows the exact position of that instruction in cache and how many instructions fit the instructions cache or pipeline. Like you said, it doesn't help with data cache.

Didn't the orange one threaten tsmc to buy 49% of Intel or will get higher tariffs?

Are you sure there's a significant difference in machine code between RISC and CISC after instructions are decoded?

The assembly in RISC is just an abstraction of the machine code, as it also is in CISC. If the underlying CPU has the same capabilities then it doesn't really matter what the assembly looks like?

Of course, the underlying CPUs aren't the same and that's the real point of differentiation.

I've been a gushing fanboy since I had a discount $200 laptop that ran mass effect 3 with an integrated GPU.

You’re assuming the indoctrinated ever bothered to learn what they’re celebrating as opposed to cheering in capitalism like it’s their favorite football team.

Coretemp and Ethernet. Also a few years ago the guy that maintained meshcentral (the only reason to pay extra $$$ for having Intel vPro compatibile computers in the workspace)

Basically this tells their biggest customers "next server needs to be based on AMD epyc"

How much money they could possibly "save" with those THREE salaries? Just cut one week of travel with private jet for the C class and the same savings are served

Probably not, but these morons will probably wait until too much damage is done. They’re shortsighted AF.

The tariff thing just shows that Trump doesn’t understand why people use TSMC. TSMC doesn’t have a brand of chips that they sell, and they can’t copy your designs.

Companies don’t manufacture with Intel because Intel isn’t just their manufacturer, it’s their competitor. Also, Intel’s fab is now behind the curve. It literally can’t manufacture some of the shit Apple and Nvidia want.

Trump sees a rash and is prescribing cortisone cream. But the skin irritation is from melanoma.

Nothing wrong with that, but when given the choice... I'll go AMD. I think I bought an i5 one time only in my life and I'm old.

one of problems with CISC is that it has variable length instructions

RISC systems also have variable length instructions, they're just a bit stricter with the implementation that alleviates a lot of the issues (ARM instructions are always either 16-bits or 32-bits, while RISC-V is always a multiple of 16-bits and self-describing, similar to UTF-8)

Edit: Oh, and ARM further restricts instruction length based on a CPU flag, so you can't mix and match at an instruction level. It's always one or the other, or it's invalid.

But how else is the CEO going to cheat on his wife? Cold play concerts are def out of the picture now.