AMD, Intel Draw 64-bit Battle Lines
Jack Robertson, EBN
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“It will take about a year for the market to determine [which] strategy is right,” Brookwood said. “If AMD can deliver Sledgehammer with a 64-bit performance equal to Intel's, their higher 32-bit performance could be a real winner.” Many applications, such as network servers and mainstream engineering and design computers, will continue to have 32-bit programs that could capitalize on Sledgehammer capacity while migrating to 64-bit programs, he said.
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Survivin,
I am SURE that you expected everyone to go ahead and read the whole story anyway, and I'm SURE that you weren't trying to slant things AMD's way by only posting part of the story. I just thought that MAYBE you FORGOT to post these 2 other tidbits from the article:
“If AMD can't match Intel in 64-bit processing, then its 32-bit advantage won't matter,” he added.
"Intel said the Itanium and McKinley will run 32- and 64-bit programs seamlessly on the same chip hardware, using a bit switch to send 32-bit instructions to on-chip registers designed to operate in a compatibility mode. Waxman said there is no loss of performance when operating in the native 32-bit mode. "
No, No, there's no need to thank me. It's not necessary, I understand.
:-)
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