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PC Hardware Architecture Perspective.

SergeyS's blog — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:32:52 GMT

It looks like the current concept of PC MotherBoard should start getting re-thought. These 3 items: CPU

re: Microsoft should take over CPU architecture.

SergeyS — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:55:39 GMT

parvenu74 wrote:

"Microsoft would be wise to stay out of the CPU design business and focus more on the "how do we improve Windows" business"

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I don't think so. The success of "Windows' business does depend on the underlying CPU. The threshold between hardware and software should be shifted down to when all the hardware "smartness" is implemented in software.

re: Microsoft should take over CPU architecture.

SergeyS — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:36:23 GMT

Max wrote:

> Maybe it could make its way into PCs

> as a chip onboard of a PCI-E extension

> board?

I don't know. Perhaps at the beginning it could be some external hardware, but normally it should be the CPU to be built on the architecture. The CPU should be sort of advanced CPLD or FPGA; in mass production on <45nm technologies they will be dirt cheap.

re: Microsoft should take over CPU architecture.

parvenu74 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:54:49 GMT

Sun Microsystems did just this with the MAJC (Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing). It was such a flop of an idea it never became a commercially viable product. Microsoft would be wise to stay out of the CPU design business and focus more on the "how do we improve Windows" business.

re: Microsoft should take over CPU architecture.

Max — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:10:58 GMT

Hey Sergey,

How do you see your concept fit into a casual PC? Maybe it could make its way into PCs as a chip onboard of a PCI-E extension board? Say, a 'CLR Diamond Monster C#-FX X-elerator' or whatever you call it ;) Or an array of manageable virtual cores in the CPU?

BTW: Ty tozhe pyan kak poslednyaya svinya? :)