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[dougSF30]

So chipguy, what do you think? All those dark transistors could be an unusable 64b x86 that was not AMD64. Sound plausible?

Doug

[chipguy]

BTW, this woman is a tech reporter who goes waaaaay back in the valley. She KNOWS lots of things.

Wow, that was a lot of 'a's in your 'way' so you must really
mean it. And capitalizing 'knows' cannot help but strengthen
and reinforce my expectations about her knowledge.

All in all, coming from *you* this is high praise indeed.

[dougSF30]

Also confirmation of HP & Sun boxes:

(from the same article)


Which brings us to the next Intel Developer Forum in mid-February where Intel is going to give a Yamhill technology demonstration, although it could be jeopardizing the 64-bit Itanium chip that cost a trillion dollars to get to market, and is only selling modestly.

The event will make AMD's day and validate its hybrid approach.

Intel would neither confirm nor deny reports of the demo, but informed sources say it's true and of course the timing is exquisite. Long about then, Intel's hereditary enemy Sun Microsystems should be announcing its promised Opteron line - which it's reportedly already delivering - and Itanium co-developer and primary booster Hewlett-Packard should be confounding people by adopting Opteron too.