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To: Charles R who wrote (67443)	8/3/1999 1:51:00 AM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (1) of 1574637

The big difference vis-a-vis IA-64 is that one doesn't need to recreate the whole software base - i.e., it can take off like a rocket! This is a huge roadmap thing - doesn't have much to do with near term dollars for AMD but has everything to do with where it is headed as a company. Something with the potential to move AMD from a trading stock to a long-term investment-grade stock. I've said before that a 64-bit extension of x86 makes a lot of sense (or will in a few years when 4GB of memory is common) as a means to extend the life of x86 indefinitely. If Intel doesn't do it (due to IA64 politics or whatever), then AMD should. Whether AMD is actually considering it or not, I have no idea.

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