How many years till Intel releases a new non-x86 uarch?

[cbn]

Please be aware the poll is not a public one.

EDIT: Made a mistake. Should have added a greater than 8 years option. (Too bad I can't change the poll)

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2132979 <---I started a new thread here with the complete poll options.

Moderators could you delete this thread?

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[magomago]

itanium? I thought it was supposed to ultimately replace x86 as intel developed it, let people become more familiar with it on the super high end, and then let it slowly trickle down and replace x86 in the maintstream... but then AMD came around and say "wham bam watch us extend x86 even longer boyyyzzzzz" and that was the end of that. Someone correct me

Would be interesting to see Intel develop or liscense ARM architecture.

Does the mobile space have room for another architecture? Or is ARM getting to the point where its architecture is so entrenched it is the new intel of the mobile space and companies will only build systems around ARM?

 

[IntelUser2000]

Intel has ARM license, and they used to make ARM instruction based chips for phones. The first one was called StrongARM, the one they bought from DEC, and the successor was called XScale. They sold the XScale division to Marvell, which still uses the XScale name. They still use the ARM instruction chips in network cards for servers and I/O controllers.

Even Moorestown, Intel's Atom based handheld and tablet platform, uses a very simple ARM core inside the companion chipset.

 

[Hulk]

I don't think there will be a clean break from x64. I believe this instruction set has been so successful that there will continue to be a slow evolution away from it and eventually it will evolve to the point where it technically isn't x64 anymore. In the same way if you look back to Windows 3.1, which was fully 16 bit, and then look at Windows 7 64 bit they are totally different animals. But the steps along the way were very closely related.