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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (149864)	11/27/2001 3:19:31 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Constantine, I'm sure it is in Intel's best interest to keep control of the instruction set architecture (ISA), like you said. But Intel did not "follow in AMD's footsteps" when they developed SSE, as you claim. Both Intel and AMD developed their extensions at the same time. AMD just happened to be first to market, but that's not surprising given how rudimentary 3DNow was compared to the more comprehensive SSE. Now you are suggesting that the only way Intel can keep control of the ISA is to create an x86-64-like extension. It's not going to happen like that. Tenchusatsu

To: Charles Gryba who wrote (149864)	11/27/2001 3:35:07 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Charles, <<<? Isn't it plain simple that controlling instruction sets gives the upper hand to whoever is doing it?>>> IA-64 is a different architecture - totally different from desktop stuff. It addresses a totally different market. Most AMD employees and fans(loyalists) are PC oriented as well as most Intel employees and fans. Most AMD loyalists think they could do anything on the desktop (multi-user, multi-tasking rocket science, missile defense, and intergalactic star wars collaboration) - and have a one size fits all mentality. Intel's IA64 investment (a huge one), however, goes in another direction. Desk top processors will be designed to do things efficiently for people to do on the desk top. For other stuff, a huge investment was made to design and develop a totally different architecture. AMD however, does not have the resources to go head to head with Intel in this space. Therefore, it is quite logical for them to try to confuse the issue by offering "IA64 me too extensions" for the desktop and of course they will have some success in doing this. You can fool some of the some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. Mary