Author: jorge luis borges
Date: 12:32:56 08/05/01
This was snipped from Slashdot, where some AMD employee posted some
interessting thing about future AMD processor.
"The next-generation chips from AMD are being designed with programming
optimizations done at the firmware level. For example, a FORTH interpreter is
being ingrained into the preprocessing area on the chip die itself. This makes
it easier not only to add firmware-level software like BIOS, bootloaders, etc
more easily, without resorting to running the code through a compiler into X86
instructions and machine code, but it will also make it much easier to write
more optimized C compilers (and other compilers for that matter). If you combine
this with the improved instruction technology that AMD will be incorporating, it
makes for a very powerful new platform for all programmers.
Dwain Snyders
Research and Development, AMD"
Reading this I wonder if soon we can have a Fritz or Tiger firmwares running
on the core. Now thats will great!
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