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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (96395)3/2/2000 7:40:00 PM
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Eric - RE: "The extra transistors just sucking up die space, increasing AMD's costs, lowering the "potential" profits."

AMD claims the 64-bit extension on the processors only costs 5% more die space. So if a Sledgehammer never runs any x86-64 stuff its not like half the processor will be worthless.

"Without a commitment from Microsoft I can't see a future for this chip."

I guess we'll have to wait and see if this ever happens. I'm hoping AMD and Microsoft's relationship grows a LOT since it seems Microsoft will use the Athlon or a derivative in X-Box.
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