AMD is just stupid. They needed to differentiate themselves. The uArch of K10 was fine. They needed to turn it into a SoC, like bobcat was doing. Only moreso. Heterogenous compute. SIMDs in the fpu. ARM cores right next to x86 cores. The ability to turn off the big hungry cores and let the ARM cores run at low loads. Windows desktop, simple web page rendering, processing network and I/O, all sorts of things can be done on an ARM core, using X86 emulation if needed. (Think transmeta only on a smaller scale.) But ideally with direct support at the kernel level from microsoft.
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