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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 dcstimm · · Score: 0, Troll

    How is this guy flamebair? he brings up a good point! Tomshardware showed amd cpus to burn up if the heatsink is removed, and intel cpus dont... they also run cooler. and a AMD cpu paired with a via motherboard very unreliable.

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  2. Re:Of course backwards-compatible by PunchMonkey · · Score: 1, Troll

    Dismiss this as karma whoring all you want

    Oh no, I won't dismiss this as karma whoring. To be a karma whore you need to post something worth being moderated.

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