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Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64
HishamMuhammad writes "The rumors reported earlier at /. are confirmed. The latest offerings in the Pentium 4 family now support AMD's x86-64 architecture, even though Intel is not willing to admit it very openly, by using cryptic names like EM64T and (gasp) IA-32e.
(The naming issue was discussed on lkml, and the consensus there was to use 'x86-64,' even though sometimes AMD refers to it as 'AMD64'). Intel's FAQ admits their implementation is basically compatible with x86-64, except for the minor differences that have always set Athlons and P4s apart. It's about time Intel jumped on AMD's bandwagon, since its homegrown 64-bit architecture seems not to be doing
very well."
Buy Intel, Buy Quality.
Don't you mean Bye, Intel. Buy Quality.
I love it. The slashad in this story for me was SGI's pushing their Altix on Itanium2!
HA-HA!
you have a gap in your logic. let me help you.
I, Forest Grump posess in my ownership a Pentium 3, 1.0 GHZ Tulian chip. It is housed in a Dell Inspiron 8100. I have used this lap of a top for 2 and one half years.
In that time, the DVD has died, 2 HDD have died, 2 batteries have died, 1 wlan nic has died, 1 display hindge has died, and the faithful keyboard that I was once using had died. The motherboard, although not dead, needs to be replaced (and soon because my warranty runs out in 6 months).
I can however, attest, that the cpu is in it's original condition is currenetly running at 0.73 ghz, and shows no sign of death...yet.
Grump
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I like how theres an ad for Itanium2 processors on the slashdot article links for HP and Microsoft not supporting Itanium. :P
"Intel® EM64T is one of a number of platform innovations Intel is delivering"
So... copying somebody else is "innovation". So that's the definition Microsoft has been using all these years!
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32-bit processors are not useful for most people even geeks. I only have one app that ould benefit from ronning on a 32-bit processor and that is NTP but it does fine on 16-bit processors. Games do not need 32-bit processors look at Sega, the games run fine on 16-bit processors and look as good the without the extra floating point accuracy. Why would I want a 386, gives my nothing but 32-bits.
I mean, come on. really, if we all went back to 8-bit processors, i think the world would be a better place.
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And I, for one, welcome our new AMD overlords.
... i've owned half a dozen (6) ...
Thanks for clearing that up....