Intel Prescott to Be 64-bit Capable

LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, Alaska Icrontian
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
Prescott 64-bit Capable

Fine, but does Intel advertise this loudly, lending credence to AMD's Opteron intiative, simultaneously implying that the 32-bit Itanium was an expensive bust?

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  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited September 2003
    The Inq: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11668&quot; target=_blank>Prescott has 64-bit compatibility built in</a>

    SINCE WE published the pins and needling story <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11611&quot; target=_blank>yesterday</a>, the black shirted moles have come out of the woodwork about the innards of Prescott. Those little critters can't stop talking. The power people told us how many pins they needed, months ago, a crazed genius told us about Prescott's die <a href="http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2003_03_26_Prescott_clues_for_Yamhill.html&quot; target=_blank>here</a> and <a href="http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2003_04_20_Looking_at_Intels_Prescott_part2.html&quot; target=_blank>here</a>, and lots of people told us that to count said non-power pins. Peeks into the bios code told us more. Motherboard people strongly denied it, and winked at us. Something was up, it was coming from too many directions. Four strong sources, but no smoking gun.

    Then, in an anti-climactic burst from out of left field, it all hit at once. Someone came up to me and said 'Guess what I just heard a senior Intel executive say'. Talk about months of hard work ruined by a person who happened on the story of the year. That said, you heard it here first yesterday, Prescott has 64-bit functionality in it. Hans DeVries was dead on.

    <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11668&quot; target=_blank>more here</a>
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Ahahahahahahahahah ;D.

    "We don't think 64 bit is ready for the desktop."

    Yamhill v2.0.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    Intel seems to be trying to play it cool, like they aren't being beat by AMD by the 64bit processing by saying it isn't necessary, but down deep they know they are in deep trouble if they don't come up with something to compete with AMD, hence this CPU.

    However, I don't see how 2 32bit cores can equal full 64 bit processing. I think that the data within one core will be duplicated in the second core.
  • celchocelcho Tallahassee, FL Member
    edited September 2003
    well, it's possible, they really just didn't think it would be neccessary until later, but now that amd is pulling the 64-bit stuff, it is somewhat of a marketting problem, so they'll do something about it.

    not like intel is in that big of trouble.
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