[svlug] It is all starting to make sense

[Jonathan Sergent]

In message <364891AC.49418ECB at jps.net>, Charles Notley writes:
 ] Mark Willey wrote:
 ] > You better go read it again.  64-bit processor?  I don't think so...
 ] > I think you confused the width of the backside bus with the instruction
 ] > format.
 ] 
 ] So it's still 32 bit internal architecture?

Yeah, IA-32 instruction set and all.  Registers that are 32 bits wide, 
the whole smooge.  But really high clock rates, and a really spiffy bus.

I'm personally not convinced that Intel will be able to get people to
move to Merced just because it's from Intel.  There's already a good
deal of 64-bit competition out there (Alpha and UltraSparc and PA-RISC)
some of which will even run Windows (Alpha).  I don't think Intel has
the pull to get everyone to make the big migration when it's released.
I don't think it will flop, but I don't think it will have the market 
share that Intel has in the 32-bit space by any stretch.

Regardless, there's no arguing that there will be a big market for
IA-32 (that's the P.C. name for x86) processors for a long time, and
that's obviously what AMD is going for...


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Jonathan Sergent / sergent at io.com

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