AMD's 64-Bit Chip

EyesWideOpen writes "AMD is set to release a 64-bit chip early next year which will be completely backwards compatible with the Athlon line. The current 64-bit offering from Intel, Itanium, is an entirely new chip that has no backwards compatibility with its x86 line of chips (from the 8080 chip to the Pentium IV) and is designed only for high end servers. AMD's solution to this problem is the Opteron chip (product info) which will be in servers, desktops and laptops. Here is a wired article."

Comments

Wow

[krogoth]

I've seen duplicate stories, but this beats them all! :)

Re:Wow

[unicron]

Somewhere a Delorean reached 88 miles an hour to get this story to us.

Henry Ford set to release Model "A"

[A nonymous Coward]

Ford Motor Co. is set to release today a new car, the Model "A", based on the award winning and famously popular Model "T". The new Model "A" is backwards compatible with all previous 4 wheel gasoline powered Model "T" cars produced by Ford and its competitors, and can run on the same roads as them.

Will they run OS X?

[I_Kill_Panhandlers]

I've been waiting for these bad mama jamas. I must have spent a week trying to install OS X on my Athlon XP. I couldn't believe how rude the tech support at Apple was, even though I tried to switch. I thought that Quartz would make the windows framing my porn look pretty, but I haven't had a chance to see. I hope this 64 bit CPUs change all that. I used to write 64 bit assembler programs all the time, but they never compiled and linked right. I blame the makers of GeOS, that had to have been the worst IDE I've ever seen for ASM.

Re:Sadly Intel has the upper hand here

[MikeD83]

"But it has more bits", says my friend as the reason his Play Station 2 is better than my PC graphics. He doesn't understand that my computer, a 32 bit instrument, actually has a 128 bit graphics card. He also doesn't understand the purpose for all those bits. He just thinks the more of those bits you have the better.

Intel may do better in the benchmarks; however, AMD will offer you a "64 bit computer with a SPECIAL 64 bit version of Windows." When the average user goes to buy a computer they don't check benchmarks. The key to selling these new units will be the more stuff appeal (and the better price of AMD). I want the computer with more bits, don't you :o)

36 years early!

[ajrs]

my 800 MHz AMD is still doing the job. I don't really need a 64 bit chip until 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 2038.

HP Endorses AMD Chip?

[Gerdts]

"You wouldn't buy a DVD player that wouldn't play your CDs, would you?" said Jerry Huck, chief architect at Hewlett-Packard.

I am sure that Intel is really happy that the chief architect for their partner in their 64-bit efforts is endorsing the competing technology.

Re:Since when is the 8080���

[Hard_Code]

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