"The company said the new technology will be described by Paul Otellini, Intel's chief executive, later this month in San Francisco during a speech at the company's twice-yearly conference for hardware and software developers."
Well, this headline is two days old but I've been seeing fresh incarnations ever since and I'm a bit tired of it. Everything that claims to be details sounds like longer pipelines, higher densities, and continued compatibility with the dishwasher controller chips of the 70's. More of the same. Hardly an overhaul.
The overhaul has, in the mean time, already happened in the PowerPC, AMD and Transmeta systems two of which have (unfortunately) attempted to embrace and extend the Intel architecture. I'd love nothing more than to see Intel make a fresh start, but this doesn't sound like what's up at Intel. I hope to be surprised.
We need to finally have operating systems that are hardware agnostic. Linux leads the way in this, OS X is trying, Microsoft still doesn't get it, but maybe they will soon. These billion-line OSs have no business coding in machine language (or even assembler) and code that breaks when run on a slightly different configuration that the one it was compiled on is broken to begin with.
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