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Linus Has Harsh Words For Itanium

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dirty-naughty-itanium dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "As a follow up to the earlier story "Intel: No Rush to 64-bit Desktop"... In words that Intel are likely to be far from happy with, the Finnish luminary has stuck the boot into Itanium. His responses to some questions on processor architecture are sure to be music to AMD's ears. Linus, in an Inquirer interview concludes: "Code size matters. Price matters. Real world matters. And ia-64... falls flat on its face on ALL of these."" Of course, Linus works for a chip maker ;)

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  1. When is the... by mr.henry · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Transmeta 64 bit chip coming out??

  2. I'll tell you what matters, Linus. by c0d3h4x0r · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Code size matters. Price matters. Real world matters. And ia-64... falls flat on its face on ALL of these."

    Ease of use matters. Ease of installation matters. Hardware support matters. Linux falls flat on its face on ALL of these.

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