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AMD Back in the Black

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hurray-for-competition dept.

XaXXon writes "CNN reports that AMD had a profitable quarter for the first time in over two years. According to the story this is mostly because of their 64-bit line of chips (both Opterons and Athlon-64). AMD has forced both HP and Intel to change long-standing plans of only supporting Itanium, with HP coming out with Opteron-based systems and Intel releasing chips mimicking the 32/64-bit behaviour of the Opteron. According to the story, 64-bit processors are better than 32-bit ones because 32-bit processors 'can't take advantage of more than 4 megabytes (sic) of memory at a time.'"

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  1. 32, 64,... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What I want to know is, where are the 128bit CPUs?

    1. Re:32, 64,... by MasTRE · · Score: 4, Funny

      > What I want to know is, where are the 128bit CPUs?

      Which will be able to address..... [zoom in on Dr. Evil's face] 1 MILLION MEGABYTES!!!

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  2. Thanks for clearing that up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you also explain jokes to people after you tell them?

  3. The metric system can only simplify things so much by MukiMuki · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, the DVD consortium has finally approved a standard of blue ray disc drive, which allows optical media to break DVD's 18 megabyte barrier, finally allowing for movies times exceeding 10 seconds.

  4. Re:32 bit only access 4MB of RAM at a time????? by CdBee · · Score: 1, Funny

    "4mb ought to be enough for anybody!" Bill Gates, c. 1993 ? (/humour)

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  5. AC/DC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This just in, AMD also has cat's eyes, and possibly nine lives.
    -Stu

  6. Irony by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 5, Funny

    "and Intel releasing chips mimicking the 32/64-bit behaviour of the Opteron"

    Does anybody else see the irony in this ?

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  7. Re:AMD have been better than Intel for some time.. by dave420-2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using terms like "versatile" and "nimble" to describe a CPU makes me slightly wary of the rest of your point ;) What's next, "majestic" RAM? "enigmatic" GPUs? :-P

  8. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Reminds me of the days when my Commodore ran on 0.064 megs of ram that cost me 0.6k

  9. Mod parent up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    The "Mod parent up!" comment by AC-ploy is "#""#!!! Links like that in the sig isn't good.

    Yeah, but it's easy to tell it's a fake - everyone knows that February 30 isn't a Monday.

  10. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There is a fighting version of the G5?!? Fantastic! (duel)