freqmax wrote:
Xeon is mainly Intels attempt to beat AMD64, not to benefit customer..
I am not 100% familiar with the term AMD64, but Xeon chips are high end server / workstation chips. Their equivalent are AMD OPTERONS. Xeon chips pre-date Opteron's.
I believe this confusion has arisen through a misunderstanding on the families of 64bit processors.
Alexh, as you rightly stated, the closest equivalent to an Intel Xeon is an AMD Opteron. Both chips come in 64bit flavours, both are designed with the server/mainframe market in mind.
What I believe freqmax is referring to is the AMD Athlon 64, which is the first 64bit processor aimed at the consumer market. This was launched back in 2003. The first 64bit CPU Intel designed for the consumer market was a version of the P4 which was launched after this time. I've heard in a couple of places that the 64bit architecture AMD designed was copied by Intel. In fact you can read about this here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64Hope that helps.
