[Ti] Intel shows off 64-bit dual core processors for mobile, desktop, and servers

[Chris Olson]

On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote:

> and are 64-bit—the last part of that is welcome news to those who  
> feared the switch to Intel’s current lineup meant sliding back to  
> 32-bit computing once Intel chips start showing up in Macs

Ummmm....  did you actually take a look at what's required for coding  
that?  FYI the dev boxes we have support EMT64 and it's anything but  
elegant.  There's only two 64-bit processors worth looking at - IBM's  
PowerPC and AMD's Opteron.  Pushing 64-bit address space around where  
32-bit can be used, aka Intel's solution, slows things *waaay* down.   
Why do you suppose Microsoft hasn't jumped right on it?  AMD has  
opened a fair challenge to Intel to show their stuff - so far Intel  
is ignoring the challenge because they know AMD has done their  
homework and will stomp all over them.

There's two, and only two, elegant solutions to 64-bit desktop  
computing that exist today - linux running on an AMD Opteron, or Mac  
OS X Tiger running on a PowerPC970.  Everybody else is in the  
"wannabe" category with promises that as of yet are nothing but  
vaporware.  Intel is the market leader, with a solid proven history,  
in selling vaporware solutions.
--
Chris
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