subzero, before you accuse AMD of piss away $50,000,000 instead of bolstering their CPU software, I think we should wait for the first optimized x86-64 software benchmarks. By the time Alchemy came along, AMD was working on x86-64 CPU compiler software for several years.
If you go back and look at the record, you will find that AMD financed Alchemy through a bond offering, and it was late in the game for required x86-64 compiler work. One has nothing to do with the other.
However, on the point about Intel buying compiler companies as a strategic move against AMD, I agree. Intel hasn't bought Microsoft or Gnu yet, and they are the two biggest generators of compilers for Opteron.
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