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."

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Re:AMD Zhips are for losers

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:And to think....

[ignorant_newbie]

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.