Let's be real here, x86 will be forgotten in 10 years.
Probably not. These things never happen as fast as people want. According to /pol/ “The West” should have collapsed by now.
>>107823946Not even joking, but i already heard that since the last 30-35 years.
>>107823946no one is buying ARM laptops/desktops
OP is unironically right. Do any of you even have any actual functioning x86 CPUs? All I have are AMD64 ones.
>>107823946Personal computing in general will have been forgotten.
>>107823946Panther Lake is raping Apple M5 right now.
>>107823974The west has not even taken their gloves off yet.
>>107823946>86 is not divisible by 32why did it have this stupid name in the first place
>>107824377Intel
Fex makes it obsolete.
give it 10-15 years and lets hope that arm machines will stay as open as they are right now (bootloader unlocking and shit). actually, give it another 30 years and riscv will be the hot new thing
>>107823946>x86 will be forgotten in 10 years.Said Andrew Tanenbaum in 1992. Here we are in 2026 still using it, albeit the 64 bit extension.Alternatives will probably come, maybe even from Chinese companies. Maybe cheap laptops will transition, as they already have started to. But I think desktops and workstations will continue to use some sort of x86 processors.
>>107823946> let's be realyou are retarded. x86 has been around for over 40 years. do you think there is a company out there that is a) going to rewrite all the microcode required to run anything and b) obsolete all software made from the last 40 years and c) even with emulation nobody is going to want to run the newfangled buggy shit because it's going to be a fucking mess. you don't understand how many bugs have been ironed out in the last 40 years. that is the only reason your computer is stable and not crashing every 20 minutes. good luck with your newfangled shit.
>>107823974>These things never happen as fast as people want.it literally fucking used to happen this fast just 20 years ago.
Proud Chinese SBC Chad here, fuck legacy ISA's
>>107823946We would need Qualcomm's desktop chips to become competitive with Apple Silicon first.
>>1078243771986 or something.
>>107823946let's be real here, who cares>>107823982this. wake me up when it happens
x86 was an anomaly from better times, if arm win, you have to worry about the state of the world.
>>107824825>hope that arm machines will stay as open as they are right nowso not at all
>>107823995Architecture won't matter, since you WILL stream everything from "the cloud".
>>107823946maybe on laptops and might even minipcs, but certainly not on desktops.
>>107824114this
>>107826911>x86>freewhere is intel minix microcode source code?where is amd psp source code?where is your motherboard's bios source code?
>>107823946That what they said 30 years ago.
>>107823982Kek, remember when Intel itself wanted to kill off x86 with Itanium and failed?
>>107824114I do have old Pentium MMX and Slot I Celeron machines stashed in a box somewhere.
>>107823946>45 years reignjust two more weeks
>>107823946You've been saying this every two weeks since 1985.
>>107824114I have a working Diamondville Atom-based netbook floating around here somewhere, which was the last non-AMD64 CPU Intel made if I recall correctly.
>>107823946wont happen, the time where isa matter was decades ago, a decoder for x86 instructions takes up such a small area on the cpu so as to be inconsequential.
>>107830348Don't forget when Intel tried to kill off x86 with i960 too, and also failed.
>>107823946For use in "big" computers? Maybe, maybe.But it's still de facto the standard in micro controllers and other small things and all the possible alternatives are just bad memes.
>>107823946I still have my fingers crossed for risc-v
>>107823946>The Internet is a passing fad and will go the way of the fax machine and FM radio.Meanwhile, in reality...
when will we get x87?
>>107830943Me too.>>107831051You didn't finish reading x86 yet
>>107831051X87 is the floating point unit
>>107823946N
>>107823974YWNBAW
>>107823946>x86 will be forgotten in 10 years.My compilers course professor said this in 2008.
>>107823946why?
>>107829807>where is intel minix microcode source code?>where is amd psp source code?You do know that microcode is an architectural detail that lies BELOW the ISA right? x86 has nothing to do with the underlying microcode. The architecture cannot govern those details. The freedom here is what the ISA provides and that's unparalleled desktop compatibility and backwards compatibility.>>107829807>where is your motherboard's bios source code?Here - https://libreboot.org/faggot
>>107831255used to be*ftfyfirst it got integrated into the architecture and now nobody uses x87 anymore after MMX, SSE and AVX
