asian1 wrote:
Hi
Intel had announced new 600 series Pentium 4 with 64 bit Memory Interface.
Is this the start of true 64 bit era for Intel CPU?
Are AMD Athlon 64 the pioneer of 64 bit era on X86 compatible CPU?
What happen to the pioneer of 64 bit CPU: Alpha?
Xeons have had 64bit versions out for a while now, and Itanium is also 64bit iirc. Its only the the P4 that has stubburnly remained as a 32 bit only system.
AMD certainly have pioneered in this arena - they caught Intel completely off guard with the Athlon64 and completely blew out the Itanium with their Opteron cpus.
I do recall once seeing a 400Mhz Alpha Laptop running windowsNT when comparative X86 laptops were topping out at around 150Mhz. Certainly they were great innovators, HP should be shot for not continuing the line.
