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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: SilentZ who wrote (759195)12/23/2013 3:14:57 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1578400
 
Z,
Don't know why he came to mind, but those were the days, eh? Looks like those boards are basically dead now, but at one point, the microprocessor wars seemed like the most important thing in the world…
I met Paul Engel in person shortly after I moved to Northern California. He's enjoying the retired life now. He looks younger than I thought he would be.

The x86 CPU wars are old news now. Intel basically won the x86 war over AMD, but that doesn't matter anymore in a so-called "post-PC" era.

Hardware innovation has migrated to integration and power-efficiency over pure performance. Even servers need to pay attention to power-efficiency, since half the cost of running a server farm these days is related to power and cooling.

This all fits into the trend of "pervasive computing," where chips get smaller and smaller and can now fit into more form factors. Smart watches and smart glasses are an example of what is possible in the near future; we'll see whether they catch on. On the other side, so-called "cloud computing" continues to grow by leaps and bounds, as the thirst for server capacity continues to increase.

None of this can be measured by a bunch of fanboys having pissing contests over benchmarks anymore.

Tenchusatsu
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