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AMD Back in the Black
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.'"
What I want to know is, where are the 128bit CPUs?
Do you also explain jokes to people after you tell them?
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.
"and Intel releasing chips mimicking the 32/64-bit behaviour of the Opteron"
Does anybody else see the irony in this ?
This is the sig that says NI (again)
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