Who's to say that Intel is really following AMD's footsteps in the first place. Intel is such a paranoid company that one would be mistaken if they weren't working on 64-bit extensions for IA32 (which they were but didn't want to publically annouce because of IA64). Also, who's to say that Intel didn't hand over the designs for the 32-bit extensions to AMD in the first place to keep them competitive? And the other thing, the x86-64 bit stuff, might just bite Intel and end-users in the ass later on down the road. I give AMD the hand for coming out with this but if they were really going to extend 32-bit they should have done it correctly instead of this half-assed x86-64 stuff. Most of the 64-bit stuff is just memory extensions anyway, and this really doesn't give you 64-bit processing power, just the ability to access memory above the 4GB limit.
The $65 / hour relates to everything a customary US employee gets. This includes medical/dental/retirement/bonuses/life insurance/ etc... The company I work for recently outsourced some work to a country oversees and the engineers there get all those things mentioned above for about $15 / hour.
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Who's to say that Intel is really following AMD's footsteps in the first place. Intel is such a paranoid company that one would be mistaken if they weren't working on 64-bit extensions for IA32 (which they were but didn't want to publically annouce because of IA64). Also, who's to say that Intel didn't hand over the designs for the 32-bit extensions to AMD in the first place to keep them competitive? And the other thing, the x86-64 bit stuff, might just bite Intel and end-users in the ass later on down the road. I give AMD the hand for coming out with this but if they were really going to extend 32-bit they should have done it correctly instead of this half-assed x86-64 stuff. Most of the 64-bit stuff is just memory extensions anyway, and this really doesn't give you 64-bit processing power, just the ability to access memory above the 4GB limit.
The $65 / hour relates to everything a customary US employee gets. This includes medical/dental/retirement/bonuses/life insurance/ etc... The company I work for recently outsourced some work to a country oversees and the engineers there get all those things mentioned above for about $15 / hour.