AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors

Posted by CowboyNeal on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @09:15AM from the end-of-the-longint-as-we-know-it dept.

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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Re:16-bit? 16-bit? by MAXOMENOS · 2003-11-18 09:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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.
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