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AMD's 64-Bit Chip

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lookit-all-them-bits-in-there dept.

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."

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  1. Re:AMD Reigns Supreme by Buck2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's flamebait for the same reasons that everything else which is not packaged correctly is modded down.

    Most moderators are trigger happy idiots.

    This will be offtopic. Which is interesting because there is no goddamn place to answer these questions without being offtopic. Fuckheads.

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