AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors

DDumitru writes "Infoworld reports that AMD predicts it will stop producing 32-bit processors by the end of 2005. By depending on price cuts for Athlon-64 and Opteron, AMD is predicting that it's sales of 32-bit CPUs will fall off and obsolete 32-bit systems in less than 3 years. This is either a push forward, or a tactic to try to capture the 64/32 bit standard leaving Intel in the rear. Or it could just be hype." I'm not in a hurry to ditch any of my 32-bit machines, so long as I get them replaced by 2038.

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32-bits is dieing

[Anonymous Coward]

AMD now confirms: 32 bits is dieing.

bah

[fjordboy]

you young-ins and your 32 bit processors...I'm using 16 bit and I have no plans on upgrading now. You'll be back...

Good news/bad news for AMD

[burgburgburg]

Good news: I agree in the quickly coming obsolescence of 32-bit chips.

Bad news: I'm getting a dual 1.8Ghz PowerMac G5, baby! Yeah!

I have to go lay down now.

16-bit? 16-bit?

[burgburgburg]

You're soft. Why, in my day, we sent rockets to the moon with 8-bit processors, and we considered ourselves lucky to have them.

16-bit? Why don't you just go lay down on a feather bed and let servants peel your grapes for you? Harumph.

Re:16-bit? 16-bit?

[SoSueMe]

In my day we had 1 bit processors. But it wasn't even a bit. You see, we didn't even have binary, all we had were zeros!
That would explain the relative value of most A/C posts.

Re:16-bit? 16-bit?

[shut_up_man]

Listen you cocky young whippersnapper, in MY day we broke the Hun's codes with 1-bit difference engines the size of buses, running on vaccuum tubes infested with poisonous moths bigger than your hand. We entered our programs with sledgehammers, completely from memory, during air raids, in the dark, while we were completely drunk!

And you tell the kids of the day that, and they don't believe you...

hrmmmm I don't have to worry about bits.

[zaqattack911]

I'm betting by 2005 my 32bit cpu well become self-aware and upgrade itself.

Re:Finally

[DoraLives]

Finally the more advanced processors will become commonplace

Now just how long have people been saying this?

Ah, teenagers. always wanting the trendy machine

[Pac]

You expend too much, youngster. My 128K 8 bit Apple II still works fine - I have Visicalc for my spreadsheet needs and the CPM card allows me to use the wonderful WordStar, the king of the word processors. Who needs anything else?

IPv6

[RevMike]

Finally the more advanced processors will become commonplace, if it is not just a rumor. Even if it is a rumor, it is bound to happen eventually.

64 bit PCs will be here long before IPv6 makes significant inroads in replacing IPv4. (Ducks out of way of ensuing flame war)

John Titor?

[Aero Leviathan]

Oh.. so the 2038 problem is nearly fixed? So this John Titor guy is a fake, right?

Whew!

384,000km?

[billstewart]

Kilometers? In my day, when Americans went to the moon, we only had *miles*, and only had 238,000 of them....

obsolete 32-bit systems in less than 3 years

[pmz]

My six-year-old Sun Ultra workstation won't be obselete! What a relief!

DO NOT DISPAIRE!!

[bsDaemon]

IPv6 will be out in time enough to boost the number of players in the Duke Nuk'em Forever online free for alls!!

Re:Learn to write

[Kenja]

It's is it is is it?

Old microprocessors never die

[TheLink]

"IMHO though 32-bit systems will never die"

Old microprocessors never die. They just end up embedded ;).

Hmmm. That's strange, I don't see something like this in those "Old xxx never die" lists. Looks like a new one :). So here's it for the lists:

Old microprocessor engineers never die. They just end up embedded.

Re:WordStar?

[Tumbleweed]

Oh, you've got one of them newfangled //e's, then, not a ][.

And what's an 80 col card? :)

Re:How can you say that?

[Talez]

Yeah... well... 16-bit processors will never die.

God forbid the day Motorola stops making 68K chips.