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Subject: Re: Do you know something about INTEL 64 bits CPU?

Author: David Blackman

Date: 07:15:18 06/15/99

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On June 15, 1999 at 07:06:38, leonid wrote:

>Hi!
>
>In this year, presumably, 64 bits Intel chip should be produced. It
>expected to be more that attractive - 128 registers each 64 bits wide.
>Do you know something about it? When it will hit the market?
>
>Leonid.

The architecture has been disclosed. You can get it from somewhere on the intel
website (over 1MB PDF). It looks pretty weird. At the same clock speed, i
suspect it will be faster than anything else. But it might turn out to be hard
to make at fast clock speeds. The public documents i've seen give no hints about
how they will implement it, when it will hit the market, etc.

Past attempts to make similar architectures were huge flops. (There were quite a
few in the late 1980s.) But Intel has more resources, and technology has
improved a lot, so who knows?

I suspect most of it's advanced features won't be a big help to chess programs
unless the programmers are extremely clever.



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