Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 19:02:58 05/16/02
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On May 16, 2002 at 11:34:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 16, 2002 at 09:27:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On May 15, 2002 at 23:01:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>Bob i was not doing a statement about 64 bits processors, >>but about the IA64 processor which this guy wanted to buy. > >So you don't think Intel will ever make cheap 64 bit processors? Look >at what 32 bit cpus cost today compared to 16 bit cpus 10 years ago. They surely won't make a cheap IA-64 processor. That thing is aimed at the high-end server/workstation market, and that market only, and it's too big and complex to ever have hope in the mass-market desktop sector. It will be for the same reason Alpha (or any of the other high-end RISC CPUs) never penetrated that market. Someday we will have 64-bit computers on every desk, and there will probably be 128 and 256 sometime after that. But it will not be the IA-64 that starts that trend.
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