AI
Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:19:32 AM
Intel can't totally kill Itanium. They have to try and save a little face.
hmm. i seem to remember itanium (a.k.a. itanic) talk from way back in what, '97? isn't 5+ years enough 'trying to save face'?
And being Intel, they won't be totally compatible with AMD. The software makers will have to continue supporting two similar standards like the do now with MMX and 3DNow.
right, but for the most part - except maybe for very specialized programming - this is hidden inside the OS code and by the compilers. so its pretty much just the compiler writer (which in this case is either msft, intel or gnu, for the most part) who have to worry about it. while, on the other hand, itanic required a whole new compiler technology, since that's where all your optimizations are done.
It looks like somebody at Intel is starting to come to their senses.
with itanic, its probably just the success of the amd 64's. though most folks don't need 64 bits on the desktop, there are still enough who do (e.g. all their own design engineers running cad software).
actually, with amd's release of a 64-bit processor, that would leave intel as the only major cpu manufacturer without a "popular" (desktop, say) processor: ppc, amd64, sparc ... its the 386 all over again.
Since they aren't in the dram memory business, they don't much care what the standard is as long as there is cheap fast memory that can keep up with their CPU's. Having the next standard get tied up in the courts and royalty problems wasn't going to do them any good.
hehe. sounds almost revolutionary, except for the fact that this is what the whole standards process here was supposed to be in the first place. (unlike, say, the gsm/w-cdma nonsense.)
How many people need 3 ghz to do a little word processing and web surfing?
hehe. i'd take one
hehe. i was really debating getting an amd-64 a few months ago when my motherboard fried, but i settled on a nice cheap e-machines box for under $600, and took what i saved and put it into a nicd big lcd monitor. really worth it. (although i still want to have *2* lcd monitors. but when the prices come *way* down.)
hmm. i seem to remember itanium (a.k.a. itanic) talk from way back in what, '97? isn't 5+ years enough 'trying to save face'?
And being Intel, they won't be totally compatible with AMD. The software makers will have to continue supporting two similar standards like the do now with MMX and 3DNow.
right, but for the most part - except maybe for very specialized programming - this is hidden inside the OS code and by the compilers. so its pretty much just the compiler writer (which in this case is either msft, intel or gnu, for the most part) who have to worry about it. while, on the other hand, itanic required a whole new compiler technology, since that's where all your optimizations are done.
It looks like somebody at Intel is starting to come to their senses.
with itanic, its probably just the success of the amd 64's. though most folks don't need 64 bits on the desktop, there are still enough who do (e.g. all their own design engineers running cad software).
actually, with amd's release of a 64-bit processor, that would leave intel as the only major cpu manufacturer without a "popular" (desktop, say) processor: ppc, amd64, sparc ... its the 386 all over again.
Since they aren't in the dram memory business, they don't much care what the standard is as long as there is cheap fast memory that can keep up with their CPU's. Having the next standard get tied up in the courts and royalty problems wasn't going to do them any good.
hehe. sounds almost revolutionary, except for the fact that this is what the whole standards process here was supposed to be in the first place. (unlike, say, the gsm/w-cdma nonsense.)
How many people need 3 ghz to do a little word processing and web surfing?
hehe. i'd take one
hehe. i was really debating getting an amd-64 a few months ago when my motherboard fried, but i settled on a nice cheap e-machines box for under $600, and took what i saved and put it into a nicd big lcd monitor. really worth it. (although i still want to have *2* lcd monitors. but when the prices come *way* down.) 
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