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More Details Emerge on AMD's Hammer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yet-more-data dept.

Diabolus writes "Anandtech have more information on AMD's upcoming Hammer processors. " Talking with several engineers who are in the know about it, the Hammer looks pretty frickin' amazing. Itanium will have a run for its money, I suspect.

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  1. Re:Backwards compatability big advantage by jmauro · · Score: 4, Informative

    Itanium can run un-modified x86 and in certain cases PA-RISC binaries unmodified. Look at the specs, there was no clean break. Intel learned with the i960 and the 8080 that clean breaks are not liked by those designing the systems at all. The x86 stayed around and will continue to stay around for as long as Intel stays around. Intel will have nothing else.