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To: Dan3 who wrote (57434)	10/6/2001 2:52:26 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dan, Re: "Interesting. Since the industry is inevitably moving to 64 bits (all Unix systems have already made the switch) you must have concluded that Intel will have completely abandoned the desktop and notebook sectors in 2 to 3 years, making AMD the dominant supplier to these segments." It will take at least 3 years for x86-64 to catch on in any reasonable number of applications. Assuming Hammer does get launched in late 2002 or early 2003, that would mean that 64-bit applications might be ripe for the market in late 2005 or 2006. By then, Intel can consider 64-bit core CPUs based on IA-64. The consumer market especially does not require 64-bit processing for quite some time, and developers won't bother including it for minimal performance gains in a K8 generation chip. wanna_bmw