[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 22:40:42 UTC, johnso... at gmail.com  wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 5:18:34 PM UTC-4, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>  
> > Not saying it will happen, just saying it's a possibility which makes
> > predicting the future even harder than it used to be.
> 
> Circumstances like that have always existed. That's really not new. The near
> term future isn't that structurally different that the futures of the past.
> 
> And I believe that the possibility of an upcoming "death of x86" is greatly
> exaggerated especially when compared to the Alpha.
> 
> EJ

I'm not sure there has always been one dominant chip architecture/vendor
with a symbiotic relationship with one dominant software vendor.

I'm not sure it'll always carry on like that either.

But if you want to believe it, you've got lots of other folk believing
it too. We'll see, in due course. Intel have enough money to keep going
down the same old road for quite a while.


Meanwhile, outside the Wintel world, TSMC and ARM have (allegedly
credible?) plans for 10nm 64bit "system on chip" product later this year:
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/manufacturing/arm-tsmc-plan-10nm-finfet-socs-q4-2015-2014-10/

Like I said, interesting times ahead for Intel.