Mail Archives: pgcc/1999/05/25/18:30:43
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 05:56:16PM -0400, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
> Noticed that there is aparrently some interest in EPIC, which at this
> time is not yet supported by GCC.
I am sure gcc will support Merced when it will released ;)
But first of all, if you want technical rather than strategic info I'd
recommend to look at the GCC EPIC page:
http://www.goof.com/pcg/epic/
(I'm currently in the process of adding new links to that page)
> My q is as to whether or not it is an open std, or is Intel going to
> charge a head and torso for any other chipmakers to use it?
EPIC is an architecture like RISC or CISC - you can patent aspects of it,
but not the idea itself.
What Intel does is to sell the IA64, and, yes, they are fairly
closed-minded about who gets which information.
> Will AMD be able to use it in an upconming K8 or whathever the next one
Good question. Don't think so.
> will be??? Or Cyrix (heard some talk of AMD buying Cyrix, though I don't
Even better question, I don't think Cyrix will, they've got quite a few
problems to solve with their current designs ;)
At the moment it seems that the only other counter-player against the
merced is the elbrus-2k, which might get delivered even earlier than the
merced!
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