Intel's Prescott will use AMD64 extensions??

Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
The Inq: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11781&quot; target=_blank>Why Intel's Prescott will use AMD64 extensions</a>

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If you think Intel would eat its own shoes before it adopted AMD64, guess again, it will be compatible with AMD64. If you doubt this, think about one thing, why this is happening. It is not Intel's doing, not by a long shot. While it may use a different name, like the old x86-64, or even Extended x86, it will run all the software that AMD does. Mmmmm, shoes are tasty.

So, why is this again? Simple, MS. Microsoft will not support a different 64 bit platform, and frankly I don't blame it, it costs a lot of money to do that. MS gave Intel the choice, support AMD's instruction set, or do without Windows. MS won that battle pretty handily. </i>

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Comments

  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited September 2003
    Makes perfect sense from an MS-standpoint. AMD64/x86-64 is still x86 so coding the O/S and other applications to the ISA is much easier than re-writing every bit of ASM code and re-writing the compilers virtually from scratch just to handle the new ISA.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited September 2003
    MS has a good point. AMD has been in these shoes for awhile now. How times have changed.
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Article has gone...

    ~Cyrix

    It's still There

    ~Omega65

    edit// It must have come back ;)

    ~Cyrix
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    I wanna see Intel paying some sweet licensing fees to AMD to pick up the 64-bit instruction set! heya~
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    The tides have turned I see... Yosh
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    but if they asre using AMD technology..and have a faster mhz rating...could AMD get creamed?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Wug, they are using AMD64 EXTENSIONS, not "technology." IT just means that the processor will support the instructions that AMD wrote for performing 64 bit operations. It does NOT mean that Intel's chip will be able to do them any faster or slower (probably slower ;) ) It just means that they will support Windows XP AMD64 edition
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Like AMD supporting SSE & SSE2??

    ~Cyrix
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited September 2003
    Exactly!
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