Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:17:39 05/10/05
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On May 09, 2005 at 11:56:46, Dan Andersson wrote: > The current Intel 64 bit chips are called P4 XXX EM64T, if we exclude the >incompatible Itanium. > Based on the P4 core it is a pretty crappy alternative to the AMD CPUs. Intel >is currently working on Pentium M 64 bit cores. > >MvH Dan Andersson I believe this is the "kludge first-cut chip"... 32 bits internally, 64 bits externally, which means that 64 bit instructions get executed in pieces internally. We ran on one a while back and it was a dog. But it does provide a platform for X86-64 program development while one waits on the real 64 bit intel X86-64 processors to hit the street... Opteron smokes them at present.
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