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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (55003)4/9/1999 6:29:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) of 1582633
 
Ten,

I don't know anything about AMD's plans other than what they have published about their CPU architectures. They are impressive and based on very solid principles, which is more than I can say about Merced.

I see AMD's competition as coming from Willamette, which is Intel's sensible answer to performance. System performance will become a much higher priority. It is not hard for me to imagine MP migrating onto the desktop in a relatively short time frame (i.e. 3-5 years.)

I don't see IA-64 going anywhere besides servers in the near future. The IA-64 architecture offers little or no benefit for desktop applications, though it is well suited for the predictable tasks which servers are devoted to.

Scumbria
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