Jim wrote:
@takemehomegrandma

You are on quite a roll tonight.
I hope we continue to support discrete Radon video cards too, but AMD APUs offer similar gpus in an integrated package.
It wouldn't bother me in the least if we supported those.
And I have never favored supporting only the largest player in the industry, as lack of competition defeats innovation.
Plus, when Intel made the mistake of betting on the Pentium 4, AMD products were kicking their ass.
I don't anticipate Intel failing this way in the future, but without competition they WILL try to feed us similar crap.
As to the comparable power of PPCs vs. X64 processors, they are not nearly as far apart as you seem to think. Even ARM is approaching a competitive stance with X64.
And, as you have pointed out, its all microcode based anyway.