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Subject: Re: itanium

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 01:58:47 01/18/01

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On January 18, 2001 at 04:35:22, David Blackman wrote:

>On January 17, 2001 at 23:21:19, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>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).
>
>He means Itanium and Alpha.
>
>AMD is planning a 64 bit chip called Sledgehammer. It isn't here yet, but it is
>quite possible they will deliver in quantity about the same time Intel do. Also
>quite possible they will be more succesful in the market. Wait and see.

Sledgehammer is just a beefed up x86 architecture, while the Itanium
uses a totally new (well, for Intel/AMD at least) VLIW architecture.

I don't think they will compare at all.

--
GCP



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