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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 259.65+2.3%Jan 23 9:30 AM EST
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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (45302)6/26/2001 8:11:46 PM
From: muzosiRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Then Itanic will sink. The technology is too poorly conceived for any amount of marketing to save it. Of that I am convinced

i think you're missing a very important point: x86 isa is more or less competitive with any risc out there at least in terms of specint. this means whether an isa succeeds has nothing to do with the technology of the isa itself. x86 is the worst isa imaginable to put in a workstation or server but it is in both. whether an isa succeeds depends on how much the owner spends on the implementation/process technology and marketing. for intel, there is no alternative. itanium has to succeed and most probably it is going to succeed. as microsoft, the third version of an isa from intel usually works well enough. even with x86, the first really useable one was the 386. mckinley will limp and whatever comes after will probably a very good chip at around 90 nm or so.
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