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AMD or Intel...which 64-bit chip will be best?
Who will make the best x86-64 chip?

AMD - designed their Opteron/Athlon 64 chips from the ground up to be a 64-bit x86 chip that is completely compatible with current 32-bit software. Notable features: hypertransport, Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process for reduced heat/power, integrated memory controller, 8 new registers as well as 16 SSE/SSE2 registers, triple-pipeline FPU for more processor operations at lower clock speeds. Early advocate for 64-bit x86 capabilities.

Intel - added 64-bit addressing on to their existing Pentium 4 chip which was already an overextended, overclocked version of their tired 'Pentium' design . Had to be dragged kicking and screaming to produce a 64-bit x86 chip and obviously greatly prefers the 'Itanium' platform where it does not face competition.

Notable features: even more pipeline stages, high heat dissipation, hyperthreading (HT), very high clock speeds.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes   Posted on: 01/30/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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in other words...  dg mh | 01/29/04
Amazing  KiwiIT | 01/29/04
Smell That???  middle of nowhere | 01/29/04
the smell is also the chip smoking ... wink  nograin | 01/30/04
Thank you AMD..  jimk_z | 01/29/04
You mean to say thank you Apple/IBM  PitLord | 01/31/04
Was once a leader...  in-DUH-vidual | 01/30/04
Stealth?  alan.canellis@... | 01/30/04
Oh, no. Not another 30years of X86  Prognosticator | 01/30/04
Why not...  STDog | 01/30/04
Intel CT Technology....  doh123 | 01/30/04
AMD or Intel...which 64-bit chip will be best?  Guy Fawkes | 01/30/04
re: Intel plans demo of Opteron rival: CT  Wolfie2K3 | 01/30/04
You forgot the real most common task...  quietLee | 01/30/04
You also forgot...  JBREPHAN@... | 01/30/04
History kinda repeats...  rafe01 | 01/30/04
Intel, welcome to the real world  michael-t | 01/30/04
Enough already! G5 isn't the future  zeusfuse | 01/31/04
and supercomputer builders  TWRX | 01/31/04
Opteron's and Xeons are in Clusters, too - what's your point?  zeusfuse | 02/03/04
will it run windows?  ryusen | 01/30/04
I doubt that's a major issue  Michael Kelly | 02/02/04
well not just microsoft  ryusen | 02/02/04

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