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haxxiy said:

No one can say AMD isn't delivering the goods, though I'd say questions about the viability of x86, long-term, remain.

To be fair, those questions have been arising since at least the mid-90's.

But the advantage of an architecture like x86 is that you can add instructions of variable length later down the line, and this has kept the architecture ahead so far, and I expect this to stay the same more or less for the next decades to come.