AMD to leave x86 behind?

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:17:17 +0200, YKhan wrote:

I'll start off with my own wild speculation. There was word that prior
to choosing SSE2/SSE3 as its AMD64 floating point instruction set, AMD
was investigating going its own way. So I'm going to speculate that AMD
will extend floating point out with its previously abandonned
instruction set. I'm going to speculate that this instruction set will
be a full scientific functions instruction set, just like the old x87
FPU was, except without the stack-based register system. And let's say
it'll have 32 FP registers instead of just 16 like SSE does.

And who will optimize? What was the name of AMD compiler again? what, no
compiler? .. great idea
AMD pouring money to GCC guys would be a different story. Thats where AMD
is becoming bigger now, in small linux server boxes.

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