x86 going nuts

[Asch]

Oh well, this is a little bit techy,

So here it goes, I got a white-paper from Intel, about the new FMA(Not Full Metal Alchemist xD) instruction set, A month before, I got a white paper on AVX of theirs, now, after researching a little, I find that both Intel and AMD are going to use different variants of FMA on their respective processors. Now, if it is for instruction sets, both of them are using their own versions of SSE 4 too, at the end, there is not a single unified platform, although it is good for competition, but it damages x86 architecture as whole, say, most of the modern applications and games hardly use any instruction set above SSE2, why, because if they will use SSE4 or SSE3, they have to make different versions for AMD and Intel platforms. That kept aside, it is making x86 a bloatware, CISC does not means complications in design but it was meant to do a variety of tasks without much investment. It is turning quite opposite now, I have to buy a new processor in every two years or while because it does no supports the new instructions and some stupid bloatware features, even if it has marginal increase in performance and manifold increase in price.

I guess that is the main reason why console and Mobile devices manufacturers uses ARM and RISC , they just do what they are meant for, not bloating the overall structure. Maybe this is the end of x86 ?

So what are your views on it ?

[mrheihachi]

I dunno, I have always preferred the RISC architecture... however, I have been a Mac user for years and it is still freaky to think there is an Intel chip in this thing