The Battle in 64-bit Land, 2003 and Beyond

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The Battle in 64-bit Land, 2003 and Beyond

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 2, 2003 @11:50AM from the is-it-a-plateau dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Paul DeMone has an excellent article up at Real World Technologies on the future of 64bit computing. Find out where MIPS, HP, Intel, AMD, Sun, Fujitsu, and IBM are headed."

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Getting the AMD/Intel fight outta the way by trmj · 2003-02-02 11:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Intel will release a 64 bit processor first, but 2 months later AMD will come out with a 61 bit processor that runs twice as fast. Don't ask me how, or even why speed is relevant to the computing power, but they will do it.

Then, 6 years later, China will come out with their own.

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64 bits? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-02 12:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Hah! My Commodore 64 has 64 BYTES! Hah!
In other news... by Mr_Tulip · 2003-02-02 12:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Microsoft is eagerly awaiting 64 bit processors, as they will "greatly decrease the incidence of Integer overflow exceptions, and memory overwrites"
0.13 mm? by dido · 2003-02-02 12:22 · Score: 4, Funny

Despite shipping 0.13 mm x86 devices for about a year, Intel's first 0.13 mm IA64 MPU, code named Madison, won't be introduced for another 5 or 6 months. The EV79, a 0.13 mm shrink of the 0.18 mm EV7, will be even later, shipping in about a year.

Holy cow... I didn't know microprocessor features were still so freaking huge! Methinks the author needs to remember that there is an HTML entity readily available as µ. :) Unfortunately it seems slashdot is stripping out most of my entities so we can't see it here . 0.13 mm is 130 microns, which is roughly where IC technology was in the mid- to late-1980's if I'm not mistaken. That can't possibly be right. If use of the entity is out of the question (just as it seems to be on ./), maybe they could have said 0.000013 mm or even spelled out the word "micron" right out.

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And... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · 2003-02-02 13:17 · Score: 4, Funny

...everyone will forget that Sun has done this decades ago.
Re:It amazes me... by Tomster · 2003-02-02 14:26 · Score: 4, Funny

You're not likely to see 128- or 512-bit general-purpose computers in your lifetime, I'm afraid.
With advances in medicine, regeneration, nanotech, and cybernetic replacements/augmentations, I fully expect to live at least 200 years. Did you take that into consideration when making your prediction? :)
-Thomas
Re:Floating point by Fefe · 2003-02-02 15:22 · Score: 4, Funny

I recompiled it with EPIC, of course.

The x86 emulation mode is so bad, nobody in their right mind will use it. IIRC it is slower than a 200 MHz Pentium Pro.
Re:It amazes me... by f97tosc · 2003-02-02 18:33 · Score: 4, Funny

With advances in medicine, regeneration, nanotech, and cybernetic replacements/augmentations, I fully expect to live at least 200 years. Did you take that into consideration when making your prediction? :)

What you fail to realize that these replacement/ augumentations will not be possible until research labs have access to 128- or 512- bit general purpose computers.

Tor