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[sgolds]

Elmer, PPC history repeat with Hammer?

Not likely. It is an evolutionary growth path for x86, a well proven technology. Early indications are that 64-bit optimized for Hammer gets a 30% boost over 32-bit code. (That is more than I would have predicted.)

If you want to see a totally new architecture that doesn't live up to the foils, I think Intel has one...

Good thing they have HPQ locked in!

By the way - someone posted a list of the other companies developing Itanium 2 product. They are all a lot different than HPQ, because HPQ has committed all their major non-PC computer products to Itanium. They burned their bridges. The others adopting Itanium 2 have not boxed themselves in, they can offer a line of products. Should they not sell, it is not a big deal.

For HPQ, if Itanium 2 does not sell for them, it is death. They will make it work for their workstation, mainframe and non-stop markets.

[kpf]

Elmer Replay

I remember... iirc IBM and Apple were already in an uphill struggle in these days.

If you consider Hammer as a replay, X86 will win again. :)
What convinced me from the very first moment of the idea is its evolutionary approach of transition. Everybody who tried a revolutionary approach in the last decade failed badly.

Btw, some DNA of the original PPC still lives in IBMs fourth (and soon fifth) generation of CPUs. Going into Macintosh as unicore-970 maybe - could stretch the life of this architecture for sometime longer.

K.