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Subject: Re: Where is now 64 bits Intel's computer?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:42:27 05/12/02

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On May 12, 2002 at 00:31:51, Martin Andersen wrote:

And it is called McKinley and on paper it's impressive
what it delivers a Mhz.

just a few details i remember:
  1Ghz , 3MB L2, 6 instructions a clock, not extreme penalty however
  for misprediction, loads of registers, and a big L1 cache.

What do you need more?

The first cpu was of course not so fast, but making it already was enough
to impress the world because of the price a cpu intel can make it for.

>On May 11, 2002 at 11:57:34, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Recently I read a lot of discussion about new coming AMD's 64 bits chip. But
>>what is the situation with last Intel's 64 bits chip? Where he is now? Do
>>somebody really use this chip?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Leonid.
>
>You mean Itanium ? It is expensive, slow and nowhere
>close to AMD's. Nobody uses Itanium. There are
>rumors about a new 32/64 chip from Intel, which
>will compete with AMD's, if this chip is successful.
>
>Martin



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