<font color=red>Jerry S.: Microsoft WILL support x86-64
Talk about your processor lines.
The desktop processor is the [AMD] Athlon XP [processor]. It’s what we are selling against the Pentium 4 on the desktop. We have the [mobile AMD] Athlon 4 [processor], which is the same core but has a dynamic-feedback capability that adjusts the speed at which it runs depending upon the performance required by the application. The higher the speed, the more power it burns, and therefore, the more battery drain. The [AMD] Athlon MP [processor] has a dual processor for servers and dual-processor workstations. We’ve got the little brother of the Athlon, the [AMD] Duron [processor], for mobile or for low-cost servers. At the end of next year, there will be a 64-bit processor called the “Hammer.” That’s the internal code name, [and it has] a remarkable capability in that it is based on a Microsoft-supported instruction set developed by AMD.
I thought Intel dominated the Microsoft relationship.
We call it x86-64 [architecture]; it supports all of the x86 instructions. We’ve added 64-bit capability and instructions that Windows NT64 from Microsoft will support. This is unprecedented in history—Microsoft supporting x86 instructions other than those developed by Intel. This means anybody can run existing 32-bit applications with higher performance and move to 64-bit [applications] seamlessly. This is in marked contrast to the Intel approach, which requires developers to go to a whole new instruction set and rewrite all their software. Or, if they want to run their 32-bit software, it will run on an [Intel] Itanium [processor], but at a degraded performance. When we start shipping in 2003, my life’s work will have come to fruition: an independent platform supported by Microsoft that will compete with the Intel monopoly.
Explain that.
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