The shape of things to come: In an effort to fend off cloners and
prevent a recurrence of what happened with their x86 line (i.e., someone
like AMD coming along and
wiping the floor with them),
Intel are patenting
the IA-64 instruction set; more specifically, they're patenting the
mechanics behind the architecture. Then again, there's no guarantee that
IA-64 will be the Next Big Thing; there's no hardware-compatibility inertia
(as there is with the x86), and everyone may just jump to PowerPC, Alpha or
ARM or somesuch.
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