The future of the IA-128 architecture in the following generations of Windows in question

A recent message that Microsoft is writing a nucleus for future Windows operating systems on the IA-128 architecture is most likely premature, reports Downloadsquad.com .

Recall that the other day a message appeared with reference to Robert Morgan, the head of the research and development department of Microsoft that the software giant is developing Windows 8 and Windows 9 nuclei based on the IA-128 architecture.

The last architecture, which is presented on the market, Intel is the IA-64 , reports Wikipedia . This architecture is the fruit of the joint development of Intel and HP and was originally planned for workstations.

This architecture was based on a set of instructions with obvious parallelism (EPIC), in which the compiler should build instructions for parallel execution. The possibilities for compatibility with applications developed both for Intel X86 and PA-RISC were added.

However, for certain reasons, including technical, this platform was not in demand by the market. The main disadvantages were: a high price of solutions, a small number of optimized applications and low throughput.

A large negative impact was also exerted by a great delay in the release. The fact is that when the processors of this series went on sale, they are already morally outdated and could not compete with the solutions from AMD and IBM.

The totality of these factors was the reason that the release of IA-64 architecture began to be called "the largest fiasco over the past 50 years."

Thus, experts are very doubt that new versions of Windows will be built on the IA-128 platform.