Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scot who wrote (96050)	3/1/2000 2:15:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575887

It sounds like Merced is a serious dog on x86 applications: Intel would neither confirm nor deny Sanders' prediction that Itanium will be a slug on existing 32-bit software. A company spokesman told ZDNet on Tuesday that, "Itanium is a 64-bit processor and it is entirely common that when you move to a new architecture, you have to recompile your existing applications to get full benefit." When pressed, the spokesman added: "I can't comment on this because we are not that far in our testing. There is some early silicon out there, but it's too early to say. What I would like to emphasise is that Itanium has built-in 32-bit capability." Scumbria

To: Scot who wrote (96050)	3/1/2000 2:16:00 PM
From: Scot	Respond to of 1575887

Last post.... I also didn't see this posted.....an article on Athlon MB's at Anandtech: anandtech.com Not too long after publishing his roundup on Heatsinks for use with the AMD Athlon processor, Tillmann brought us back what he considered to be one of the most prevalent faces at this year's CeBIT, Athlon motherboards. We have seen the number of Athlon motherboards grow considerably since the introduction of AMD's flagship processor back in August of 1999. At the time of the release of the Athlon there were a total of two motherboards available, the Gigabyte GA-7IX and the Microstar MS-6167. Those two were joined by FIC's SD-11 and later by the ASUS K7M as well as a solution from Biostar, but in the end, the number of Athlon motherboards was no where near the number of motherboards available for the Pentium III platform. At last year's Fall Comdex in Las Vegas we did notice a few more Athlon motherboards but that was nothing compared to the twenty Athlon motherboards Tillmann was able to take a look at while at CeBIT. While this short article will start and conclude our coverage of CeBIT, there were some other interesting things that took place at this year's CeBIT.

To: Scot who wrote (96050)	3/1/2000 3:11:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575887

The company is also hoping that Microsoft will support its move. Sanders explained: "Sledgehammer will be an extension of current x86 instruction, and yes, for us to win out, we need support from Microsoft and that's a risk. They could say no." Scot and thread; Why would MSFT support this move? If I understand this correctly, it means selling less new software for MSFT. The other key is whether companies would need both 32 bit and 64 bit simultaneously. Why would they not simply go over to 64 bit at one time? ted