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To: AK2004 who wrote (69581)1/30/2002 6:57:13 PM
From: dale_laroyRead Replies (3) | Respond to of 275872
 
>standards are in amd's favour so the question is if intel would use the same x86-64 as amd?<

Probably not. When AMD first preannounced Hammer, they stated that K8 would have triadic instructions. My guess is that Intel will have based their own x86-64 architecture upon this hypothetical architecture and as a result, Intel's x86-64 implementation will have a triadic instruction set.



To: AK2004 who wrote (69581)1/30/2002 8:55:27 PM
From: hmalyRespond to of 275872
 
Albert Re...agreed, standards are in amd's favour so the question is if intel would use the same x86-64 as amd?<<<<<<<<

As has been pointed out by others smarter than I, Intel can't change too much; otherwise the existing software won't run on it. My uneducated guess is that, seeing as Hammer will have SSE and SSE2, Intel will come out compatible to 86-64 ,with more SSE extensions, like a SSE3, and assume the software will optimize for Intel again.


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