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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Petz who wrote (59846)5/27/1999 10:26:00 PM
From: grok  Read Replies (1) of 1573927
 
Re: <Should AMD be designing a CPU for the IA-64 intruction set or should they "roll their own" or stick with IA-32.>

Well, they certainly should not "roll their own" since this would take a vast amount of resources and time, just like it's taking for Intel on IA-64. To design for IA-64 may be impossible since you can be sure that Intel and HP have been so careful with patents this time that it would be very hard for anyone else to provide an IA-64 chip and even harder for anyone to use it in a system. So that leaves stick with IA-32 as the only option.

Since it is likely that Merced and its follow-ons will still require years before they achieve much market penetration, sticking with IA-32 will be fine during this period. Of course, if and when the day comes that IA-64 becomes dominate it will be curtains for AMD.
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