The Intel Pentiums have been hitting the wall on packing more inefficient circuits into ever growing (size and heat generated) chips. If the RISC concept is married to more recent chip technology, it could be a game changer.
But if Apple locks in proprietary code in hardware like the early days, it would be a major step backwards.
The Intel Pentiums have been hitting the wall on packing more inefficient circuits into ever growing (size and heat generated) chips. If the RISC concept is married to more recent chip technology, it could be a game changer.
I see industry moving away from PPC and towards X86. Apple’s switch in their computers is only but one quite visible example.
Theory would say you are right, but practice proves you wrong. The move to dual core and now multi-core has proven to be the way of choice around the power and heat issues. X86 may be ugly, it may be CISC, but it is the future for non-mobile applications.