Hell Freezes over as AMD and Intel Come Together for x86 – ServeTheHome
Intel and AMD have established an x86 advisory board to unify the x86 instruction set architecture, enhancing compatibility and accelerating development, while responding to competition from ARM and RISC-V.
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Intel and AMD have announced a significant collaboration at the OCP Summit 2024, forming a new x86 advisory board aimed at unifying the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) between the two companies. This initiative seeks to enhance compatibility and accelerate the development of the x86 ecosystem, allowing for a more consistent and predictable experience for customers across various sectors, including data centers and cloud computing. The advisory group will gather input from industry leaders and the broader x86 community to standardize architectural guidelines and improve integration of new capabilities into software and applications. While both companies will continue to compete vigorously, this collaboration is seen as a strategic response to the growing competition from ARM and RISC-V architectures. The advisory board includes notable members such as Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, indicating a broad industry interest in fostering a unified x86 platform. This partnership marks a notable shift in the x86 landscape, potentially simplifying tasks like virtual machine migrations and code optimizations, while still allowing for innovation in CPU design.
- Intel and AMD have formed an x86 advisory board to unify the x86 ISA.
- The collaboration aims to enhance compatibility and accelerate market readiness for x86 products.
- Industry leaders, including Google and Microsoft, are involved in the advisory group.
- The partnership is a strategic response to competition from ARM and RISC-V architectures.
- This initiative could simplify virtual machine migrations and code optimizations.
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11 commentsARM took embedded first, then mobile, then gaming (on mobile and handhelds), then Macs, and now it is making real inroads into Windows laptops (e.g. Snapdragon X Elite) and servers (e.g. Graviton.)
The next shoe to drop would be a high-end gaming PC that can take an NVIDIA or AMD graphics card powered by a Snapdragon X Elite-like ARM chip.
Another shoe to drop would be a super-computer powered by ARM chips instead of x86. I don't think that has happened yet?
After that, the last refuge of x86 is in legacy software that hasn't been natively ported to ARM. But there will be fewer and fewer cases of this as the years go by. For now I think it will be mostly games.
x86 is under serious threat.
Two individuals along with multi-billion dollar corporations. Curious why the organizations that these individuals represent were not included instead?
An Intel-AMD merger would make sense, but it’s only extension of extinction if they don’t migrate from x86
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