Intel CEO disclosed his dream for the upcoming at the chipmaker's yearly developer conference in San Francisco this week. Not astonishingly, that dream is one of x86 -- or else IA (Intel architecture), as the corporation desire to call it -- all over. From desktop PCs to servers plus even to mobile phones as well as televisions, if Intel has its way quickly all device will be an IA device.

Mind you, let's not fool ourselves. The near-total control of IA for desktop computing has been marketplace realism for several times currently. Remember Transmeta? The whole point of its innovatory "code morphing" technology was to permit its exclusive, low-power chip designs to execute IA instructions flawlessly -- because some latest chip design that couldn't run Windows would be a failure.

The problem is, do we actually need Intel to enlarge its supremacy even advance, to contain phone handsets as well as additional consumer electronics? A globe where all CPU speaks Intel's language would be a benefit to Intel, Definitely. But whether such a CPU monoculture would help consumers is a completely unusual matter. Sort of like Java, only not as superior.

The crux of Intel's plan is to present a series of IA chip designs, all modified for an unusual category of devices. The promise that developers can "write once, run anyplace" has been a main selling point of the Java platform; Intel's place is that it can convey on that unchanged promise, only not including the middleman. Any IA chip can perform code for the x86 instruction set, just like any JVM on some OS can perform Java bytecode. But nothing like the JVM, binaries for the IA platform run on the exposed CPU, with no performance degradation plus no need for a virtual machine or else a JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler.