new future toy.. the Intel NUC

[doodab]

Intel's "cutting edge research" consists largely of trying to catch up with the technologies used in ARM processors such as that found in the Raspberry Pi.

Except of course that it also results in cutting edge semiconductor fabrication, multicore programming tools, high speed intoconnects such as pci express, and various other useful innovations.

[Sysman]

Oh well. That's part of your life you're never going to get back, eh?

it was a feck sight better than staying at home with the parents.

[SupremeSpod]

it was a feck sight better than staying at home with the parents.

If you remember the 60s, you weren't there.

[NickFitz]

Except of course that it also results in cutting edge semiconductor fabrication, multicore programming tools, high speed intoconnects such as pci express, and various other useful innovations.

You'd think that with all that going for them they'd be able to make a processor that wasn't tulip, wouldn't you?

[Sysman]

If you remember the 60s, you weren't there.

Too young for that bit.

The sixties were gone by the time I was 16.

[SupremeSpod]

Too young for that bit.

The sixties were gone by the time I was 16.

Me too, in fact, you're older than I am.

[doodab]

You'd think that with all that going for them they'd be able to make a processor that wasn't tulip, wouldn't you?

You mean that half the computers in the top500 and the apple macs beloved of fanbois everywhere are using tulip processors?

[SupremeSpod]

You mean that half the computers in the top500 and the apple macs beloved of fanbois everywhere are using tulip processors?

Yep. Intel have spent 30 years polishing a turd. All in the name of backwards compatibility.

[doodab]

Yep. Intel have spent 30 years polishing a turd. All in the name of backwards compatibility.

And the end result is the best choice for an awful lot of applications. Doesn't say much for the rest of them does it?

[SupremeSpod]

And the end result is the best choice for an awful lot of applications. Doesn't say much for the rest of them does it?

I'm not sure that I understand your question.

Would it surprise you to learn that more ARM processors have been sold than 80x86 compatibles?