Replies to post #22602 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[jhalada]

Durl,

You Droids want the bad news? The success of Opteron depends NOW on how well it runs 32 bit against Xeon. The success of Opteron two years from now will be how good it runs 64 bit against Itanium Montecito.

I hope you are not basing any of your stock trades on "analysis" like this one.

Joe

[Petz]

sheesh, read what they said, All of these "will be exclusively 64-bit and optimized for x64 hardware," Microsoft officials said.

x64 is short for x86/64.

Last I heard, Itanium 64 was called IA64, not x64.

Petz

[wbmw]

Re: Microsoft has drawn a line in the sand. On Tuesday, at the IT Forum in Barcelona, officials went public with a list of software which the company is planning to deliver 64-bit versions only. The list: Exchange Server 12, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the Longhorn Small Business Server, Microsoft's midmarket server, code-named "Centro," and Windows Longhorn Server R2 (the Windows Server release expected around 2009) . All of these "will be exclusively 64-bit and optimized for x64 hardware,"

Oops, there goes Intel's mobile sales. Poor 32-bit Yonah based laptops won't be able to run high compute grid and server software expected for release in 2009. ;-)

Doug

[chipdesigner]

Hey genius, x64 excludes the dead-man-walking ISA known as IA-64. So sorry.