Waccoon wrote:
Bloodline: No, intel are really dragging their heals over this issue... There is no technical reason why they haven't EMT'd these chips (Their server chips are all x86-64)... I guess they don't want to admit that AMD was right.
Maybe they figure laptop users just don't need more than 4GB of memory.
Good point, but we are not just talking about adress space, but also a fundamental architectural shift in the x86 platform (16 GP regs and no x87 FPU for example)...
Bloodline: M$ only use a PPC because they used IBM to help design and build the new Xbox and IBM own the rights to the PPC ISA (and have plenty of experience building PPC chips)...
Intel is pretty stubborn when it comes to custom work.
Exactly!
