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April 24, 2007 by James Snell (not verified), 2 years 28 weeks ago
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I think the key consideration when designing an architecture for general use is the programmers. If you can make something which provides a simple interface to users at the lowest level (that is provides a very straight forward instruction set) then I'd expect adoption to be highly encouraged. Of course, there needs to also be economical benefits all way around. If the chip is expensive as hell, hard to obtain in bulk, unstable, unscalable and so on, then there's going to be no real reason to adopt it at all.
Given that intel announced today that they're opening things up, I suspect that it will be easier for alternatives such as this to be adapted to work with existing PCs. If this CPU could provide even some sort of x86 emulation at the low level while keeping alternative features readily available, then it stands a great chance at being a success.
I wish them the best, I may have to consider Austin now for my master's, I can't wait to really get hard core with this stuff... :)