Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 20:21:19 01/17/01
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On January 17, 2001 at 22:52:22, David Wilke wrote: >On January 17, 2001 at 17:59:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On January 17, 2001 at 17:47:34, John Dahlem wrote: >> >>>Are these new 64 bit processors just for servers, or are they going to replace >>>32 bit processors within 1-3 years? >> >>Pretty much any new processor Intel introduced was aimed >>at 'servers only' in the beginning. However, home users >>always want the latest and the fastest so no doubt they >>will be on the desktop soon...Unless the price is really >>outrageous. >> >>-- >>GCP > >Intel has outragous prices? Say it isn't so... :) > >Intel is going to lose the processor war. Athlon can easily compete, and is the >cheaper solution. Someone should wake up the marketing idiots at Intel and get >them on the ball. Athlon does not compete with Itanium. There is no VLM model with Athlon. The direct competition for Itanium is Compaq's Alpha chip. If you have some database that needs 12 gigabytes of physical ram and 100 TB of virtual memory, how will you address information with Athlon? It is outside of the address space. The 64 bit address space and 64 bit native operations are unique to those two (and a smattering of other chips that nobody will ever care about).
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