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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. wow by BigBir3d · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linus being opinionated and brash? Never!

  2. Re:Why 64 bit by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Actually that's a good question. I think chipmakers should slow down a bit and enjoy life. Perhaps meet halfway with a 48 bit chip...

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  3. Re:Linus too Harsh by angst_ridden_hipster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good God, man, haven't you ever heard of polygon reduction? Bump mapping? Image mapping?

    It's hard to believe you *really* need all of that RAM. Then again, I haven't done 3D in years.

    When I was a CG guy, we dreamt of bus speeds above 66MHz. We couldn't even imagine having more than 32M RAM. And we thought it was reasonable to wait two days for a 2k image to render...

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  4. Re:You know it. by MBCook · · Score: 5, Funny
    What are you, mad man? Last month the Itanium powered 0% of all servers on the internet. This month it powers 0% of all servers on the internet.

    0% * 10,000% = 0%

    Therefor, the Itanium grew 10,000% last month. The Itanium is a major hit! Get your numbers straight man. Geeze.

    :)

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