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RE: Innovative R/D
At the same time, Intel looks more and more like the the wealthy, fat kid which is trying to catch with the other nimbler kids far ahead. Why Intel cannot manage to put a decent 64 bit microprocessor with all the resources it posseses? Even AMD has better designs.

AMD doesn't have a better design. Intels concept of the EPIC ISA should work, in theory, but the fact that Intel over looked is the fact that peope aren't simply going to drop several hundred thousand dollars work of software just so they can run the latest and greatest.

Intel thought that just because they're Intel, everything should work their way. 3 years later, there have been more Opterons sold in one quarter than Itanium for the whole time it has been available on the market.

AMD realised that the market isn't going to the latest and greatest. The market is dictated by GET, Good Enough Technology. The x86-64 removed old cruft, implemented a flat memory model, added extra 3d Now! extensions and heaps of other improvements. It maintained backwards compatibility whilst removing the crufty parts of the x86 ISA.

The net result is a revamped architecture that works TODAY and isn't based on some hair-brain idea thought up by some out of touch academic.
Posted by: CooCooCaChoo   Posted on: 10/15/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Yes, don't count them out.  DonnieBoy | 10/14/03
You mean: "SUN microprocessors are dead"  Prognosticator | 10/14/03
the xeon hyperthreading is different  EricMarts@... | 10/14/03
RE: the xeon hyperthreading is different  CooCooCaChoo | 10/14/03
Aw, come on.  Fred Fredrickson | 10/14/03
Sorry, wrong link  Fred Fredrickson | 10/14/03
Aaaaaghhhhh! Here it is  Fred Fredrickson | 10/14/03
Higher levels of integration? Whooda thunkit!  Robert Hahn | 10/14/03
You need to be informed  michael-t | 10/14/03
Innovative R/D  michael-t | 10/14/03
RE: Innovative R/D  CooCooCaChoo | 10/15/03
sun fabbed it's 1st 64 bit CPU in 1992  cygnet@... | 10/15/03
who cares  screaming silence | 10/15/03
RE: who cares  CooCooCaChoo | 10/15/03
I have Intel, AMD, and Sun Servers  cygnet@... | 10/15/03
AMD vs. Intel  michael-t | 10/16/03
More Sun Blather  Stewart Cannon | 10/15/03

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