The comments section devolved pretty quick. IBM does still sell RISC and PPC processors. If IBM could work the consumer market they probably could get powerpc back on the desktop of the average pleb.
They've always been a mess of microcode translation and other bullshittery. All 53.999999999999999999999999999998 generations.
https://www.righto.com/2022/11/how-8086-processors-microcode-engine.html is a good read.
microcode.... turns the processor's control logic into a programming task instead of a difficult logic design task
Microcode also permits complex instructions and a large instruction set to be implemented without making the processor more complex
it is generally easier to fix a bug in microcode than in circuit logic.
Nah bro we'll just run with the bugs and hope no one notices.
Sounds like you work for Intel!
I especially love it when Intel bugs appear after running fine for a while and later brick the device! No alerts from Intel!
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