No, I'm just sick of people who like to follow the fashion of Itanium-bashing over admitting its obvious technical strenghts (most of whom no jack about architecture anyways). When I first read the books myself, the only thing I could think to myself was "what a shame this never went mainstream". I had written a number of x86 asm programs in the past, and now that i've had a stab at IA64, the features are so wonderful, that (well, i started to say that I could almost cry, but thats over the top). Register stack engine, amazing. Predication, awesome. Branch hints, ingenious. What a shame.
You are so clueless. Mutli-core x86 has never at any point overtaken the raw horsepower of the Itanium 2. Have you even read the intel-published architecture blue books for the itanium processor family? How many more dimwits are going to bash Itanium, after having read technically ignorant articles from TheRegister? If you actually tried writing assembly code for it, you'd understand why Itanium *is* better in real life AND on paper.
Its a neat idea, but at what they're charging, will many people add yet another card to their motherboard?(Heck, my PCI-e slots are already jammed full)
Well, i'd make some funny comment regarding this, but seeing how everytime I try to be humorous, I get a -1 , Troll... I'm saying nothing at all.. Still though, 20-G's pretty cool.
All this is very much true. However, it hardly seems worth it for AMD to be so competitive with the product's release date. Currently I'm using the dreaded 939, and frankly, I drag my feet at the thought of upgrading like that. Either way, it will be interesting to see where future architectures do go with respect to L3 Cache. It requires a bit of tinkering, as increased L3 introduces significant latency (a vexing issue in the Itanium architecture).
Heh! We should be enamored by such a new service in the US. Not only does our stuff suck more, but we have to wait 3 years until after it debuts in South Korea to get it--at which point its really quite obsolete.
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No, I'm just sick of people who like to follow the fashion of Itanium-bashing over admitting its obvious technical strenghts (most of whom no jack about architecture anyways). When I first read the books myself, the only thing I could think to myself was "what a shame this never went mainstream". I had written a number of x86 asm programs in the past, and now that i've had a stab at IA64, the features are so wonderful, that (well, i started to say that I could almost cry, but thats over the top). Register stack engine, amazing. Predication, awesome. Branch hints, ingenious. What a shame.
You are so clueless. Mutli-core x86 has never at any point overtaken the raw horsepower of the Itanium 2. Have you even read the intel-published architecture blue books for the itanium processor family? How many more dimwits are going to bash Itanium, after having read technically ignorant articles from TheRegister? If you actually tried writing assembly code for it, you'd understand why Itanium *is* better in real life AND on paper.
Ahh.. just long enough for Vista to come out.
Its a neat idea, but at what they're charging, will many people add yet another card to their motherboard?(Heck, my PCI-e slots are already jammed full)
Can you teach it slam doors when its angry?
Now *that's* what I really call "Intellivision".
Well, i'd make some funny comment regarding this, but seeing how everytime I try to be humorous, I get a -1 , Troll... I'm saying nothing at all.. Still though, 20-G's pretty cool.
This is simply not fair. I keep getting accused of trolling. It was a joke.. lunch, launch sound similar. I think the moderators are a bit slow.
Houston, we are gone for lunch.... er, go for launch
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The frontside bus just crashed! Seriously though, I'm curious to see what Intel's development will be in memory interfacing.
Hold your tongue!
Gmail already ripped me off once when they put a job offer in the spam box. Now Verizon's at it!
All this is very much true. However, it hardly seems worth it for AMD to be so competitive with the product's release date. Currently I'm using the dreaded 939, and frankly, I drag my feet at the thought of upgrading like that. Either way, it will be interesting to see where future architectures do go with respect to L3 Cache. It requires a bit of tinkering, as increased L3 introduces significant latency (a vexing issue in the Itanium architecture).
Heh! We should be enamored by such a new service in the US. Not only does our stuff suck more, but we have to wait 3 years until after it debuts in South Korea to get it--at which point its really quite obsolete.
Splendid! Yet another way to watch my friends leave their accounts idle or away for months at a time.
Its not trolling. Its true. Intel proved this at IDF. Furthermore, AM2 really is all promise without delivery http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx? i=2741
The thing's gonna pale in comparison to Intel's upcoming offerings.