True believers in freedom-of-choice, such as I, can only hope that Intelians keep relying upon the deeper/narrower/ramp-up-the-cycles pipeline thing.
Then when they reach 100 stage 1 instruction wide bazillion gigahertz, they can compensate their instruction/cache misses which creates parts/size/heat. The advent of netbox.co.uk/set-tops should aleviate some of these watt-hog x86s. The day of the giant home box are numbered from my "POV"
also IMHO nad POV I have disdain for intel purposely holding back the motherboard/cpu technology just to force upgrades (I realize this is a business model)
interesting link below
http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1052113980.htmlBut I also prefer no single ONE chip/board/OS vendor.
