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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. go AMD by megacia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and go Linus! first was Wintel and now maybe a LinMD to balance it out

  2. Re: Linus too Harsh by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    > The thing is there has been so much hype recently about 64bit that people will assume that they need 64bit (of course it will twice as good as 32bit ;-)

    Only your granny would make that mistake. A geek will know that it's 2^32 times as good.

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  3. Re:AMD by kyrre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >That would leave them with.. Flash memory

    Don't they make diesel locomotives to. Im sure I have seen som with a huge AMD on the sides. Or is that anoter company? Appart from that they make chips for network adapters and more.