“Getting traction” would be AMD adopting it, and hardware from both AMD and Intel reaching consumers, as well as support in all major operating systems.
All we have right now is a spec. No hardware and no declarations of intent from anyone else than Intel.
That’s how it needs to start. Amd doesn’t even need to adopt this since the spec is still compatible afaik. It just will enable Intel to produce cleaner designs. Also, this is 6 month old news.
This is not done for performance, but it makes a difference in terms of cost; reduced validation times/effort.
The cores will be the mainly full x86 still, as backwards compatibility is basically free at this point in terms of power and silicon budget. But this opens the door for vendors to only support 64-bit EFI configurations.
It was inevitable and I’m surprised it’s taken this long to get traction.
“Getting traction” would be AMD adopting it, and hardware from both AMD and Intel reaching consumers, as well as support in all major operating systems.
All we have right now is a spec. No hardware and no declarations of intent from anyone else than Intel.
That’s how it needs to start. Amd doesn’t even need to adopt this since the spec is still compatible afaik. It just will enable Intel to produce cleaner designs. Also, this is 6 month old news.
I wonder why they’d bother if it doesn’t actually make a performance difference…
This is not done for performance, but it makes a difference in terms of cost; reduced validation times/effort.
The cores will be the mainly full x86 still, as backwards compatibility is basically free at this point in terms of power and silicon budget. But this opens the door for vendors to only support 64-bit EFI configurations.
The only selling point of x86 is backward compatibility. Remove that and you might as well move to a newer, better ISA.
I mean, that’s literally the main selling point of a processor; being able to execute a software library.