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melling · 2024-04-24T15:28:15

You posted the same exact thing yesterday with 100 upvotes? Am I missing something?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134534

rbanffy · 2024-04-23T08:59:59

"Intel uses Movidius’s 32-bit LEON microcontrollers. LEON use the SPARC instruction set and run a real time operating system."

So, Intel can make processors with an elegant ISA. It's just that they don't really want to.

samus · 2024-04-24T15:51:37

No, they really can't get off x86, the architecture they built their business on. The best they can do is add new extensions to provide modern alternatives to crufty instructions, while still having to support the old ones.

NPUs are a blank slate.