Athlon 64 & Pentium 4

[mezkal]

Strange you'll note I did already say this. I just didn't quote it by name. Check my previous post. They did intend to release it for home use - eventually - but it just doesn't perform. It's much the same reason why 64bit XP hasn't reached high levels of production.

 

[Strange]

Hmm, Itanium was developed for servers, there is no way it can be for home use...

 

[mezkal]

Strange, you're arguing again. Over nothing. I never said it was made for home use. I made it quite clear that Intel are letting AMD forge the way with the Ath64. So what? Why make redundant statements. Intel brought 64bit out first. It was too slow. They basically stopped it. The Ath64 is fast yes. In 32 bit applications and Windows. It remains too be seen how first it will be in a ful 64bit environment. Longhorn is going to be that 64bit environment. By that stage ALL desktop CPUs will be 64bit. Please don't start this again with me. None of my comments in the last post were anything more than clarifying history.

 

[Stezo2k]

Stezo, two points :-

Intel developed a 64bit platform based on shared information between HP (DEC's Superscalar Processor) and AMD some 4 years ago. Due to the nature of technology, by the time it reached the market it was just too slow. They have since capitulated to AMD in the 64bit stakes erring on the side of caution and letting AMD set the 64bit desktop market goal posts.

I know Intel have created 64-bit computing before AMD did, but what i was refering to is X86 based 64-bit desktop computing, sorry for the confusion, i should of stated that