Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:32:18 06/30/00
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On June 30, 2000 at 13:54:11, Rajen Gupta wrote: >On June 30, 2000 at 05:44:30, stuart taylor wrote: > >> How might Sledgehammer compete with Itanium? Does it (AMD) have a chance of >>staying above the competition? In all/some aspects? > >Neither if the 2 processors have been released yet but from what i've heard, the >sledgehammer will be faster than an equivalent clocked merced for 32 bit apps >but equally, slower for true 64 bit apps. True, the Sledgehammer will be faster than an Itanium of the same clock speed. And the Sledgehammer will be clocked at least twice as fast... Intel has already admitted that the Itanium will suck, and is encouraging everybody to be patient because the next generation of IA64 is supposed to be extremely fast. We'll see. The Sledgehammer will run 32-bit x86 apps WAY faster than Itanium because x86 is its native instruction set. The Itanium is supposed to "support" x86 in hardware, but that doesn't sound very promising. -Tom
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