Intel 64-bit Announcements at IDF

cribb writes "Some fascinating stuff is going on over at the IDF. Ever since the first sneak previews of the Opteron, there has been lots of uncertainty around its future, and that of AMD. AMD have bet everything on the success of their new 64-bit CPU, and with Microsoft severely delaying the release of a 64-bit Windows, and Intel complaining that 64-bit processing has no place in the desktop market, things were starting to look dim for AMD. However, after rumours around the 64-bit extensions of the Pentium 4 EE, it became clear that Intel is not willing to lag behind AMD in the 'innovation' department. Now comes the shocker: Intel boss Craig Barrett today anounced that Xeon-class 64-bit server CPUs codenamed Nocona will be coming out the second half of 2004. It isn't clear whether they will support AMD's Opteron AMD64 extensions. Barrett is quoted saying, 'There will be one operating system that will support all (64-bit) extended systems.' Maybe 64-bit computing is right around the corner after all, and we may even see compatible instruction sets from Intel and AMD! And does this mean that Intel will be dumping Itanium, which never caught on as expected in the server market, and forget the billions spent on developing it?" See some other articles at EE Times, and EWeek.

Intellectual Exercise

[Mod Me God]

...and does this mean that Intel will be dumping Itanium, which never caught on as expected in the server market[?]...

I'm sure it was an interesting intellectual exercise, and that they learnt a lot.

They should code name it Iberg

[Master Switch]

Because it will sink the Itanic

Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk

Intel does not have a new 64-bit chip

[Anonymous Coward]

It's actually a 32-bit chip with some horrendous rounding errors.

64-bit is so 2003

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry, but mainstream 64-bit was around last year's corner (AMD64/G5).

Nintendo 64

[b0lt]

In other news, Intel has bought all rights to the Nintendo 64 ;)

Re: Intel complaining

[spells]

Don't you get nervous saying "64" and "never need" in the same sentence?

Itanium Haiku

[Bendebecker]

Itanium here Billions wasted on effort Cash flushed down the drain

Re:Itanium Haiku

[LearnToSpell]

Formatting is hard
With HTML, I know
Next time use preview

Re:desktop chip and server chips? don't mix those

[ackthpt]

Right, so introducing a 32bit/64bit "server chip" is absolutely NOTHING like introducing a "desktop chip". They still clearly are pretending that they are not competing with AMD's strategy. Who are they kidding?

Dell, apparently. Since Dell has continued to be exclusive Intel, in the face of the onslaught of AMD64 PCs, you can pretty much imagine a call from Dell to Intel going something like this:

Dell: "Those 64 bit processors are very interesting, we get calls asking abou them."
Intel: "The Itaniums? Well, yes, we've put many years and millions into them, they should stir some interest."
Dell: "No, I'm refering to AMD."
Intel: "But you don't make systems with AMD processors."
Dell: "We haven't, yet."
Intel: "Oh, uh, we'll have something ASAP and I swear it's not going to be exactly like AMD but almost as good, uh, yeah, that's it! Real soon now!"
Dell: "Good to hear it."

Soul of a New Machine?

[Anonymous Coward]

history [amazon.com] repeats itself.

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