Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 21:00:11 02/27/02
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On February 27, 2002 at 21:44:03, Peter McKenzie wrote: >Thanks for that interesting link Dann, I plan to have a good read when I get >home. > >I had a look at the IA-64 architecture a while back, and I was pretty >disappointed. It looks overly complex to me, I'm prepared to predict that its >going to be a massive failure. If this thing is the future of computing we are >in for a sad time! > >I bet the folks at AMD are loving this. Intel bets its future on a chip based >around technology that has largely been tried and found to be not very wonderful >(VLIW/EPIC, Register Windows or whatever Intel marketing calls it). > >cheers, >Peter Are they? AI-64 will beat AMD in the networking market. This processor is still evolving, and has departed from the obsolete x86 series of chips. Intel and HP worked on this for a decade and still are. HP is a highly innovative company, building the first 32bit microprocessor back in 1981. It had 450,000 transisters and took them 18 months to develope. Not bad for 81! They have been ahead of their time, in electronics, although this may be changing. Terry
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