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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (528508)	11/12/2009 8:14:28 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576180

"It's actually a lot more complicated than that." Of course it is. And there are downsides to being fully synthesizable. But the performance tradeoffs aren't as big of an issue for that intended market. At least not yet. ARM has been getting better and better performance out of their fully synthesizable designs. At some point, ARM and x86 are going to overlap. And then the fun really starts...