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Intel's Answer to AMD's Hammer - Yamhill

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-a-city-in-oregon dept.

bdolan writes: "Today's San Jose Mercury News is reporting that Intel is going to put a 64 bit architecture extension in upcoming Pentiums if it turns out the Itanium doesn't take off. Hmm. Apparently they intend to only turn this on if AMD's 64 bit processor make major inroads against the Itanium architecture. Aren't we glad that competition is keeping everyone on their toes."

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  1. Yamhill by sben · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who care, Yamhill is a small town WSW of Portland (the little red star at the lower left).

    Fascinating info can be found at cityofyamhill.com, naturally.

  2. Re:Uhh..naming? by djoham · · Score: 5, Informative

    There actually is a basis for this name. Intel has a large presence in the state of Oregon and has a tendency to give their products code names from that state.

    For example, there's the Willamette (a major river, incidentally one of only a handful in the world that run south to north), the Klamath (a county) and the Deschutes (another county and also a national forrest).

    There may be others, but they don't come to mind at the moment.

    As a former Oregonian, I find this kind of cool...

    Best regards,

    David