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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