Microsoft, IBM back AMD64

 

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By James Morris

Posted on 23 Apr 2003 at 09:34

AMD claims it will have sold more Opterons than Intel has sold Itaniums since its 64-bit processor arrived some years ago, but that's unlikely to be a hard feat to achieve. AMD's presentation may have been full of bullish phrases like 'Even the paranoid may not survive' and 'We have changed everything', but the proof of the silicon pudding is in the eating. AMD has a doubly hard job ahead - convincing the business community it needs 64-bit, and convincing them they need it from AMD. For all the talk of bridging the gap, AMD64's success still hinges on the 64-bit question, and the jury's still out on that one.