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  Intel's x86 ISA grows down: today laptops, tomorrow the iPhone
Time: 10:04 EST/15:04 GMT | News Source: Ars Technica | Posted By: Andre Da Costa

In spite of its astounding commercial success, x86 is almost certainly the world's most-maligned instruction set architecture (ISA). Predicting the death of x86 used to be a favorite pastime of everyone from bearded mainframe geeks to Mac-using AOLpersons (especially the latter). But like various bad 80s fashions, x86 may be ugly, but it just keeps coming back.

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