Author: leonid
Date: 16:49:30 03/17/03
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On March 17, 2003 at 19:30:35, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 17, 2003 at 19:17:38, leonid wrote: >[snip] >>It is truly sad that this kind of chip (Alpha) went to its end! Still, other >>fact of migration to the new Itanium chip is very positive. This signify that >>Intel's 64 chip had certain success and its quantity production is coming in >>real. Then prices cuts should become tangible very soon. > >Intel is in no hurry to get the Itanic floating, and has said so themselves. > >Look for AMD to beat them out the door with cost effective volumes by a >landslide. > >Microsoft also prefers the AMD approach, since all the old software will run >without any modification. To be sincere I do know that AMD chip will be more accessible for me to buy but Intel's chip more attractive to program. Intel's 128 registers do make me dream without even mentioning its new architecture. Learning completely new Assembler will be also interesting thing to do.
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