Quote Originally Posted by Barr3l Rid3r View Post
maybe x86 is dead? Seems pretty inefficient to me, that requires huge amount of transistors and power for a lot of discrete instructions, most of them already obsolete and barely used.

FM2+ Surely will receive an 8 core w/out APU Steamroller cores or something like that.

Maybe a retro compatible FM3 socket could bring quad Channel DDR3 for us. 256-bit Ram bandwidth will be great for 8-cores Steamroller and APUs purpose also.
I don't think it's that simple to just overhaul the basic architecture though. Either you'd need to have some sort of translation system for the new architecture to work with the machine code in today's software, or you'd have to literally recompile everything to make it work. Same way Microsoft is taking baby steps with ARM (and it took a very long time at that), you'd basically have to have all the major hardware and software companies get together and develop a new standard for the whole industry to be used well into the future