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To: Magrathea who wrote (197478)	5/19/2006 8:25:49 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 275872

"I don't want to take this too deeply, but I ask are you.. " It depends on the needed resources. Being able to execute X86-32 and x86-64 implies to ability to execute some other instruction set, say, Alpha and/or Power along with these two. Some transistors would have to be spent to take care of architectural differences like the differences in the register sets, but it could be done. Else, an Itanium approach can be taken where a whole, separate core is embedded. But emulation is likely going to beat this approach as Intel learned. But, I've come around to ixse's point of view. I think the next step will be in the direction of Cell. Only AMD will spend more transistors to hide the backward incompatibilities, unlike the current Cell. This fits in with the rumored anti-HT that was being tossed around a couple of weeks ago.

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