Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:04:31 02/16/04
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On February 16, 2004 at 11:11:14, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On February 16, 2004 at 10:49:41, Slater Wold wrote: > >>http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7965000.htm >> >>"Intel has been secretly working on technology that would add the functions of a >>64-bit chip to its standard chips. By turning a standard Intel 32-bit chip into >>a 64-bit chip, a computer can handle more data-intensive jobs, such as running >>massive databases. Since AMD has been successful with its 64-bit offering, Intel >>has been under pressure by customers who are looking at other options for the >>low-end servers." >> >> >>Finally...the Itanic has sunk. > >It is about time because the Dual Opteron is much faster at the moment: >http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=opt248vsxeon32a&page=5 You are comparing apples and oranges. There is not a lot of difference in performance of opteron and recent itaniums. Except opteron runs old x86 stuff very fast while itanium does not. But for real 64 bit applications, compiled by 64 bit compilers, running on 64 bit operating systems, _both_ are very good...
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