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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 213.43+6.2%Dec 19 9:30 AM EST
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To: peter_luc who wrote (72939)3/2/2002 7:33:30 AM
From: Gopher BrokeRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
However, Intel will finalize its decision about including or not including Yamhill technology into the upcoming Prescott core a bit later, depending on the success of the coming AMD Hammer competitors.

What a joke. There is no pressure, Intel can simply decide about x86-64 later, when they have seen Hammer.

If Intel really are just planning to bolt an interpreter onto the front of Prescott then its x86-64 mode performance going to suck. AMD will be able to rate Clawhammer's 64 bit mode performance as 10,000+!

It will be interesting to see Intel try and market their way out of this hole. They can probably hold their own while x86-64 is constrained to the Linux server market. (That is assuming they have a plentiful supply of P4s running over 3 GHz by the middle of next year, to counter ClawHammers 32 bit performance.)

However, if Microsoft produce Windows/x86-64 before Intel has a full 64 bit core then they are in big trouble. Can Intel really persuade Microsoft to not produce Windows/x86-64 for the three years that it will take them to produce a true x86-64 core? I don't think so, given the ever-present threat from Linux. AMD are right when they say Microsoft can't affort to drag their heels on x86-64 support.
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