Intel 64bit CPU Delay

[Hammer]

asian1 wrote:
INTEL 64bit CPU delay

Intel had announced that they will delay the mass marketing of 64 bit CPU to 2008, because lack of market, lack of software (MS Windows), lack of memory.

Intel’s attitude doesn’t seem to be matching the days of 80286(16bit CPU)-to-80386(32bit CPU) (i.e. mid 80s) transition i.e. lacking the mainstream X86 32bit OS during this time period.

Is this the chance for IBM / Motorola PPC or AMD to compete with INTEL in 64Bit market?

They have to compete with the other 64bit CPUs i.e. MIPS and SUN.

AMD’s advantage is the leveraging of the large X86 market for 64bit transition.

People has bought 16Mhz 80386 instead of 16Mhz 80286 while the Windows/DOS are in 16bit limitations.

[Hammer]

Both AMD and Intel are bumbling in the 64bit world.

I recall, Intel and AMD was not the first vendor of 32bit CPUs. We know what has happen to Motorola's 68k.

Delays,

Unexpected delays are not exclusive to AMD and Intel.  

 lackluster performance,

Any benchmarks for that?