Microsoft Ports Windows and Linux to MSR's E2 Processor

Microsoft Ports Windows and Linux to MSR’s E2 Processor

by do son · June 20, 2018

Microsoft ported Windows 10, Linux, and toolchains such as C/C++ and .NET Core runtime libraries, Visual C++ 2017 command line tools, RyuJIT editors, and more to its processor architecture, E2. Microsoft also migrated the widely used LLVM C/C++ editor and debugger, as well as the associated C/C++ runtime library.

Image: Jan Gray, Aaron Smith

The E2 architecture differs significantly from the x86 and ARM processors in that it uses the Explicit Data Graph Execution (EDGE, irrelevant to Microsoft Edge browser) instruction set architecture. EDGE technology originates from the University of Texas at Austin, and Microsoft has been working on related processors since around 2010. The company stated that this is just a research project and there is no product plan at present.

Source: theregister

Microsoft Ports Windows and Linux to MSR’s E2 Processor

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