AMD's 64-bit Plot

ceebABC writes "In a long interview with eWEEK, AMD's CEO Hector de Ruiz talks about struggling to compete with Intel, but more importantly about their upcoming 64-bit processors. He says that AMD's 64-bit chips will be comparatively priced to the 32-bit ones, and backwards compatible. He also thinks there will be a market for desktop 64-bit systems. Skip to the last page for the most interesting stuff."

Comments

Big deal.

[Anonymous Coward]

Nintendo64 was 64 bits.

Re:Big deal.

[rock_climbing_guy]

no, the Commodore 64 was 64 bi^h^hkilobytes of RAM. hey, imagine a beowulf cluster of those.

Re:Big deal.

[joto]

isnt it time we dumped the whole SISC architecture? like the ISA standard

As for as I know, the SISC (single instruction set computing), typically embodied by the instruction SBN (subtract and branch if negative) is only used as a joke, in the same manner as Intercal and Malbolge.

Oh, you probably meant CISC, never mind...

64 bits

[scrawny]

that's only $8. how can they be as cheap as a 32 bit computer?

Re:Hmm

[nmaeone]

Well, 64 bits made Mario come to life. Maybe Micro$oft will make a fully 3-D rendered MSN Butterfly to help you with your daily tasks?

Bug deal

[Anonymous Coward]

What about the Commodore 64? And when whas this? 1992? Sheez.

Re:Bug deal

[dubbreak]

from previous: "What about the Commodore 64? And when whas this? 1992? Sheez." ah commodore 64 = 64kb ram, not a 64bit processor.. oh that was a joke, i get it haha! To my knowledge the processor was an 8 bit.. bit of a difference.. oh hahaha pun pun joke joke..

Re:Wow

[scotch]

Grandma and grampa checking their email won't need something that fast ....

Grandma and grandpa could check their email on a 16-bit computer. Don't forget grandpa's geri-porn, you need some horsepower for that.

AMD is puny

[Ed Avis]

From the interview:

We really can't control whether we'll go to war with Iraq, and all that sort of thing.

And that, my friends, is the difference between AMD and Intel.

"comparatively priced"?

[SkulkCU]

AMD's 64-bit chips will be comparatively priced to the 32-bit ones

So, they're going to be twice as much?

heh.

Re:Just to remind people why more bits is good..

[Rob.Mathers]

"2^64 is certainly enough for at least a hundred years"

Famous last words?

Re:Over 10 years after DEC introduced Alpha ....

[gordon_schumway]

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Re:Just to remind people why more bits is good..

[lucifuge31337]

2^64 is certainly enough for at least a hundred years:)

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processings is a fad that won't last out the year."
- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice-Hall, 1957

"But what...is it good for?"
- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of DEC

Come on....you HAD to know that was coming.

Re:What desktop users want to know..

[Dave_bsr]

Athlon 1600, newegg.com, $56
ECS K7S5A mobo, newegg.com, $54
512MB of kingston PC133 memory, newegg.com, $50
Maxtor 80GB HD, newegg.com, $110
Liteon 48-24-48 CDRW, newegg.com, $50
Chieftec 450W Tower, newegg.com, $55
SB Augigy+firewire, newegg.com, $60
floppy, NIC, etc, newegg.com, $30
Shipping, Fedex + newegg.com, $50 (approx)


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Priceless.

ps- If my math is off by a bit, sorry. And I never checked shipping, but newegg's is cheap. And, does anybody know about Turtle Beach Santa Cruz support under linux? Experience?