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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

“Industry Standard” processors forking?

Should be interesting to see how the competition between AMD and Intel plays out… they already chose different paths on other instructions (i.e. virtualization) for their processors. However, it still remains that most x86 code can be compiled and run on either Intel or AMD and most software developers avoid writing to instructions that only run on one. Could the multicore/multithread benefits lead to a fork in software that divides this “industry standard”?? Will be interesting to watch…

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/08/14/amd_lwp_extensions/