raptorlightning

Quick question that may elicit a longer response, and I apologize for the potential bluntness:

When do you expect the x86 (x64) architecture to die? We are all aware of the quickly approaching constraints silicon poses to progress, especially in the processing world, and wonder how far you, or the company as a whole, see it possible to be able to keep pushing an old (but constantly patched) architecture? What innovations would have to come about to radically push the computing world ahead by leaps and bounds towards something that is truly, fundamentally, new technology?

Electrical permittivity in various conductors. And permissivity in dielectrics. (I might have those backwards.) It's only speed of light in a pure vacuum.