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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (13729)9/1/2002 5:59:52 PM
From: Killswitch  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 57684
 
You can go read up on it all at the various chip tech sites. I think the fact that HP (which up until now was one of the biggest devotees of Intel's 64-bit approach) and Dell (normally an Intel-only shop) are rumored to be looking at it tells us something. Also the fact that it is known Intel has had to scramble to put together a project (Yamhill) to copy the AMD approach tells us something.

I don't expect Opteron to be some kind of super threat, or to take a really big piece of the server market from Intel, but I had to take exception at your pronouncement that Intel has somehow pulled away.



To: Bill Harmond who wrote (13729)9/1/2002 9:23:49 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz  Respond to of 57684
 
>> What are the issues with Intel's 64-bit price/performance that would make AMD more desirable?

I think the issue is not performance, but compatibility. Intel's new chip will not run old applications. AMD's will run existing 32-bit apps, plus new 64-bit apps. In the past, generally backward-compatibility has been critical.

Which is why the reference to the possibility that Intel might have to scrap its current design and imitate AMD's.


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