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I expect these kinds of actions from NVIDIA but not Intel. I seem to recall they did this before with Motherboards for the K7.
Intel strong armed vendors at AMD launch
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9139
AMD pursues Intel antitrust case to ?urope
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4454
HISTORY LESSON 101.
You see Intel didnt count on AMD being around 4 years ago when they ventured into an agreement with HP on Itanic. Now that they have competition and didnt choose a proper upgrade path and are being beaten at their own game.
Intel is panicing and they have every right to panic. AMD made the smarter choice by extending the x32 instruction set similar to when the x16 instruction set was expanded to 32 bit.
Despite Itanic being an excellent design and being excellently optimised its a CPU out there like a ALPHA, MIPS, or PPC. Completely different and an Island unto itself. Very High Risk since Intel had competition with AMD despite ignoring them. We all know where ALPHA CPU's have gone despite thier time of being superior. Which makes me wonder what intel was thinking when it didnt bother to think of a x32 expansion to x64.
If AMD didnt exist it would have been a smart move but with AMD constantly one step behind Intel like NVIDIA got too big for their britches and figured they didnt have competition.
Now that AMD is the King and Intel has nothing to compete with Opteron on the 32 bit planet for at least 6 months. Not to add Intel has nothing to compete with AMD on a 64 bit scale over the next 1-2 years.
Its a simple oversight that is going to hurt Intel. Never forget your past. Intel bet a bad hand and lost. AMD won that pot and will reap the rewards over the next year or two.
There is good marketing reasons why Playstation 2 is backwards compatible with Playstation 1.
Same reason GameBoy's can connect to GameCubes.
The X-Box2 will be compatible with X-Box1.
Do you see the trend. Itanic is compatible with NOTHING. OPTERON is compatible with EVERYTHING.
Even if Intel can take the speed crown back unless they do it by a significant mile the future lies with AMD Opteron because of 64 bit future.
No matter how much cache you add to a 32 bit CPU its still only 32 bit.
You are not starting off well as a member of the AnandTech community. Perhaps you're Van Smith back from the dead, but either way you need to think about what you're saying.
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I expect these kinds of actions from NVIDIA but not Intel. I seem to recall they did this before with Motherboards for the K7.
Intel strong armed vendors at AMD launch
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9139
AMD pursues Intel antitrust case to ?urope
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4454
HISTORY LESSON 101.
You see Intel didnt count on AMD being around 4 years ago when they ventured into an agreement with HP on Itanic. Now that they have competition and didnt choose a proper upgrade path and are being beaten at their own game.
Intel is panicing and they have every right to panic. AMD made the smarter choice by extending the x32 instruction set similar to when the x16 instruction set was expanded to 32 bit.
Despite Itanic being an excellent design and being excellently optimised its a CPU out there like a ALPHA, MIPS, or PPC. Completely different and an Island unto itself. Very High Risk since Intel had competition with AMD despite ignoring them. We all know where ALPHA CPU's have gone despite thier time of being superior. Which makes me wonder what intel was thinking when it didnt bother to think of a x32 expansion to x64.
If AMD didnt exist it would have been a smart move but with AMD constantly one step behind Intel like NVIDIA got too big for their britches and figured they didnt have competition.
Now that AMD is the King and Intel has nothing to compete with Opteron on the 32 bit planet for at least 6 months. Not to add Intel has nothing to compete with AMD on a 64 bit scale over the next 1-2 years.
Its a simple oversight that is going to hurt Intel. Never forget your past. Intel bet a bad hand and lost. AMD won that pot and will reap the rewards over the next year or two.
There is good marketing reasons why Playstation 2 is backwards compatible with Playstation 1.
Same reason GameBoy's can connect to GameCubes.
The X-Box2 will be compatible with X-Box1.
Do you see the trend. Itanic is compatible with NOTHING. OPTERON is compatible with EVERYTHING.
Even if Intel can take the speed crown back unless they do it by a significant mile the future lies with AMD Opteron because of 64 bit future.
No matter how much cache you add to a 32 bit CPU its still only 32 bit.
You are not starting off well as a member of the AnandTech community. Perhaps you're Van Smith back from the dead, but either way you need to think about what you're saying.
AnandTech Moderator
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