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AMD planning 45nm 12-Core 'Istanbul' Processor ?
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What could be more boring than the x86 domination we have now? Without AMD, there would be no such monoculture. Did you mean "without Intel"? I suppose if AMD hadn't been around, there would have been a greater chance of Intel getting their butts whipped by some other architecture, instead of by AMD. Of course AMD _did_ come up with "x86-64", which is an improvement over the x86 (obviously even Intel thinks so). -Miles -- 80% of success is just showing up. --Woody Allen |
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krw writes:
I suppose if AMD hadn't been around, there would have been a greater chance of Intel getting their butts whipped by some other architecture, instead of by AMD. What architecture? You grossly underestimate the x86 inertia. "greater chance" Not necessarily a _good_ chance, but it's the only way I can make sense of the grandparent poster's ranting... -Miles -- x y Z! |
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AMD planning 45nm 12-Core 'Istanbul' Processor ?
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:32:54 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
Not necessarily a _good_ chance, but it's the only way I can make sense of the grandparent poster's ranting... Don't try to make sense of something containing none of it whatsoever. NNN |
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"krw" wrote in message
t... In article , says... " writes: What could be more boring than the x86 domination we have now? Without AMD, there would be no such monoculture. Did you mean "without Intel"? I suppose if AMD hadn't been around, there would have been a greater chance of Intel getting their butts whipped by some other architecture, instead of by AMD. What architecture? You grossly underestimate the x86 inertia. Of course AMD _did_ come up with "x86-64", which is an improvement over the x86 (obviously even Intel thinks so). Intel did too, but had no interest in pushing it forward to product. They did, but was told by MS to dump it & use AMD64 code MS did not want to make 2 ver. of Windows. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 080429-0, 29/04/2008 Tested on: 29/04/2008 11:52:34 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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Wes Newell writes:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:18:24 -0400, krw wrote: In article , says... " writes: What could be more boring than the x86 domination we have now? Without AMD, there would be no such monoculture. Did you mean "without Intel"? I suppose if AMD hadn't been around, there would have been a greater chance of Intel getting their butts whipped by some other architecture, instead of by AMD. What architecture? You grossly underestimate the x86 inertia. Of course AMD _did_ come up with "x86-64", which is an improvement over the x86 (obviously even Intel thinks so). Intel did too, but had no interest in pushing it forward to product. Funny, that's not how I recall it. Intel dropped their x86-64 bit plans after trying to push it onto Microsoft, and Microsoft telling them to shove off. I think this link will get more to the truth. From a history perspective, the P7 circa 1996 was to be the 64-bit follow-on to the ia32 architecture. Then Intel shifted gears and joined with HP to merge the P7 with some stuff at HP, producing Itanium. Itanium _was_ intel's 64-bit story (with the 32-bit x86 support in the processor). However, Merced was late and slow and AMD did x86_64 and Intel was forced to include it. scott |
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AMD planning 45nm 12-Core 'Istanbul' Processor ?
In article KFzRj.12788$Rk6.2453@trnddc07,
says... On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:18:24 -0400, krw wrote: In article , says... " writes: What could be more boring than the x86 domination we have now? Without AMD, there would be no such monoculture. Did you mean "without Intel"? I suppose if AMD hadn't been around, there would have been a greater chance of Intel getting their butts whipped by some other architecture, instead of by AMD. What architecture? You grossly underestimate the x86 inertia. Of course AMD _did_ come up with "x86-64", which is an improvement over the x86 (obviously even Intel thinks so). Intel did too, but had no interest in pushing it forward to product. Funny, that's not how I recall it. Intel dropped their x86-64 bit plans after trying to push it onto Microsoft, and Microsoft telling them to shove off. I think this link will get more to the truth. Only after it was clear that AMD64 was going to happen whatever Intel did, did Intel try to get in front of the train (to derail it). M$ didn't see that in their interest either. http://www.gridtoday.com/03/0929/102028.html -- Keith |
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AMD planning 45nm 12-Core 'Istanbul' Processor ?
In article ,
says... "krw" wrote in message t... In article , says... " writes: What could be more boring than the x86 domination we have now? Without AMD, there would be no such monoculture. Did you mean "without Intel"? I suppose if AMD hadn't been around, there would have been a greater chance of Intel getting their butts whipped by some other architecture, instead of by AMD. What architecture? You grossly underestimate the x86 inertia. Of course AMD _did_ come up with "x86-64", which is an improvement over the x86 (obviously even Intel thinks so). Intel did too, but had no interest in pushing it forward to product. They did, but was told by MS to dump it & use AMD64 code MS did not want to make 2 ver. of Windows. Later, after AMD64 was a done deal. -- Keith |
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