Intel drops 64-bit Itanium - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Intel drops 64-bit Itanium
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Msg-id 200302242349.h1ONnbg09775@candle.pha.pa.us
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After failing to make Itanium competitive, Intel is now downplaying
64-bit CPU's.  Of course, they didn't think that until Itanium failed. 
Here is the slashdot story:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/2050237&mode=nested&tid=118

Seems AMD's hammer is going to be the popular 64-bit desktop CPU.

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