The Null Device

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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