Interesting facts

Whats most interesting to me on this particular subject is that Intels x86  is effectively Intel's. The company guards the instruction set architecture. AMD and Intel both have the ability to develop and build new x86 processors, but only because of old licensing argeements. Modern embedded designs have multiple processors, multiple caches, multiple threads handling graphics and files... and single-threaded file systems that have to handle all that data. Using flash media, using a multi-threaded file system will eliminate this bottleneck and can give a solid performance improvement by allowing parallel access to files.