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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. Competition bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    All of these chip designs should be open sourced allowing anyone with a fab to produce them.

    The designs are just information and information wants to be free. It's the implementation of the design (by the fab) that should be charged for, not the design itself.

    It would be much purer competition if AMD and Intel had to compete using the same chip designs. Everyone would flock to AMD because it would be obvious that they are the ones coming up with much better designs than Intel.

  2. Re:HAT TRICK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant


    and i agree with this post.

  3. Re:HAT TRICK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I have gotten a few FP's in my day.. I cant believe how easilly I got them because you know everyone is trying..