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Indeed, Intel got flat footed and was pushing for 64 bit only on itanium for a substantial price premium. AMD was first to market with the x86-64 instruction s
by sliken 5y ago
Indeed, Intel got flat footed and was pushing for 64 bit only on itanium for a substantial price premium. AMD was first to market with the x86-64 instruction set and did quite well.
- justin66 5y agoI wouldn't short-change AMD by saying their big success during that period was about the 32 vs 64 bit issue, or Itanium. They made the fastest 32-bit x86 chip in the world with the Athlon K7, and they did it four years before they launched their 64-bit chip.
- sliken 5y agoSure, but the opteron doubled down on it. They added x86-64 to a server class chip for the first time and they moved the memory controller on chip, which made the AMD scale dramatically better under a variety of workloads.