Re: Intel announces 64-bit extensions

From: Eric Grange (egrange_at_glscene.org)
Date: 02/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:23:44 +0100

> Forgive me -- I am not following your train of thought here. Could you
> explain further?

D8FDN = Delphi that uses VB runtimes
       = Delphi with same limitations as VB
       = Delphi with only cosmetic advantages over VB

> Well, that's the point: I don't believe that native 64-bit development
> is a big market.

So you believe Intel made a mistake in following AMD?
If .Net was the future, they didn't need CPU-level compatibility,
isn't all that JIT stuff designed for CPU abstraction?
There already was an Itanium-capable version of Windows, why throwing
that away by making an AMD-compatible chip instead of making a cheaper
Itanium for the masses?
Given the silicium real estate they have on today's chip, they could
even have included a complete P3M core on their cheapo Itanium, to take
care of the 32-bits backward compatibility at hig-performance, and that
for a negligible fraction of the chip's surface (ie. negligible cost
when you sell millions of chips like Intel).
And worse, if the issue had only been with Itanium's EPIC, and there had
been no worry about CPU specifics thanks to a .Net layer, why then reuse
AMD's instructions, and not make a "better" but different instruction set
(ala 3DNow! vs SSE), and by doling so cripple AMD's plans?

Eric

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