shill Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Itanium? IA-64? 64-bit computing has been around long before the A64...IBM/Sun/HP? 64-bit computing was around for servers for a long time, but I think he's talking about the specific platform x86-64 (AMD64), which really introduced 64-bit computing to workstations because it uses a backward-compatible instruction set. Intel stole it and renamed it EM64T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwai lo Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Oh..okay that might make more sense. I wouldn't really call it stealing, don't they have that shared-license thing? or whatever? We can call the Athlon a big stolen architecture too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yodat Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 64-bit computing was around for servers for a long time, but I think he's talking about the specific platform x86-64 (AMD64), which really introduced 64-bit computing to workstations because it uses a backward-compatible instruction set. Intel stole it and renamed it EM64T. Either party [intel & AMD] didn't steal anything from each other... Intel & AMD has an agreement between them so that they can transfer some key technology such as SSE, SSE2, SSE3 [to AMD] & x86-64 [to Intel]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I really hope AMD realease a driver so that Current X2 chips can do this. :D probably not gonna happen, as they mention post K8 but it would be nice if my X2 would turn into 5.4ghz, but then again it would suck at multi-tasking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japlabot Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Itanium? IA-64? 64-bit computing has been around long before the A64...IBM/Sun/HP? My Nintendo 64 was 64-bit too. We are taking about x86 processors here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 Hyper-threading and Anti-Hyper-threading Capt'n! I denea know 'ow long I can keep it goin'! The 'yper-Threadin' and anti-'yper-Threading magnetic constricters are wide open, and the deturium tank cannae take the pressure!! I Think she's gonna blow!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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