Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[blauboad]

And today's gossip implied Yamhill is AMD64-compatible. That would be an endorsement, not a bombing.

It's better for AMD if it is AMD64 compatible, but it is still bad news if Intel gets into the x86-64 game any way you look at it. At best, we go back to the Athlon days of selling more or less comparable chips, probably having to undercut on price, etc. At worst, Intel muscles the industry toward its own x86-64 and squeezes AMD out of the mainstream market.

The bomb that everyone's waiting for from MS or INTC is definite word of Intel's dektop 64bit strategy.

I think MSFT naming it "Windows for 64bit Extended Systems" is a hint of what Intel is going to do. P4 Extended Edition anyone?