Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:26:31 09/02/01
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On September 01, 2001 at 08:40:46, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >Let's put it this way, making a 64 bits server/supercomputer >chip is taking many years, What in the world are you talking about? HP-PA, SPARC, Alpha, and MIPS are all 64-bit. They have been around for approximately forever. They are all used (almost exclusively, for that matter) in servers and supercomputers. >so far we have heart nothing from AMD they want to make one, Yes, we have. Sledgehammer. >so logically seen it would take at least another 6 to 7 years to >build one for AMD. It doesn't take 6 or 7 years to make a processor. Try 4. >Intel is going to dominate 64 bits market completely now >that they have taken over Alpha, >though this market is of 0% value for computerchess, because >those computers are in price ranges from like $20000 a machine >to many millions of dollars for the bigger servers. Where's your data? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10995.html The 733MHz Itanic will cost $1177. Surely the cheapest system you can buy based on this chip will not have $18000 markup. And there's nothing expensive about the Alpha. Last time I checked, you could get a [slow] Alpha for < $2000. >That those fast PCs kick that butt of the P4 pc processor What are "those" fast PCs? The P4 is definitely a fast PC processor. >completely (especially price range), as well from the >servers from alpha and especially from SUN and all other cpu >brands when running 32 bits (computerchess) software, Seems like lots of computer chess programs are 64 bit now, and the Alpha can more than hold its own against any PC processor running either 32 or 64 bit code. -Tom
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