Are we ever going to see a general purpose CPU that wasn't

VIA. But it's trash.

I think the market's reduced it to 2 for a reason, dunno how a 3rd could come into play.

>>59103264
You mean x86-64 right?

There are plenty of general purpose CPUs on other instruction sets.

>>59103292
yeap

>>59103264
>are we ever going to see a disjointed market of competing standards and features within the same ISA that only serve to make computing worse for developers and users alike?
No, thank god.

>>59103264
You mean like the a7 or a73 arm cores?

Yeh they already exist

>>59103264
Not until one collapses and IBM or china-generic rise. But we'll have a use for a while for cheap integrated graphics chipsets in low-end/IoT devices, which will come from Rockchip, Samsung, or Qualcomm (if and when they move to desktop grade).

>>59103273
Yep, just make a VIA build with a Matrox video card.

>>59103502
>Matrox video card
Don't they just rebrand amd chips these days?

>>59103559
Yeah, their last chip would be more than 10 years old now, technologically (they might have still done revisions I think, but architecture-wise they left of with Parhelia I think).

S3 actually made it farther with GPUs than Matrox, but also disappeared. I'd like to have one of those cards, it's a rarity.

>>59103264
G-go Cyrix