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Intel Announces New 64bit Processor

I thought the Itanium2 was around for a while now? It's nothing new; it's based on the EPIC architecture; which makes it a little better than AMD64, or "IA32E" at doing 64-bit code; it's only good at doing the EPIC code, and sucks horribly at x86, or 32-bit for that matter. The chip is designed for servers, though, so who cares?
 
Oh, so the news are that Intel is moving to 65nm process, it seems after glancing over the article. The "staying a generation ahead of AMD" bit made me snort so loud that there's spit on my screen now. IMO, AMD doesn't have to move to 90nm quite yet; they clearly didn't gain full advantage of what 130nm has to offer.. but 65nm already? WTF. Preposterous.
 
Intel, show me that you can make a full-fledged processor, with good frequency scaling and thermal properties, at good yields with the 65 nm process and I'll consider this newsworthy.
 
When I first heard the rumours about Intel doing a nice clean
64-bit design, way back when, I was thrilled. It was supposed
to be VLIW, which I think is the best way to go. When it finally
appeared, they had butchered everything that VLIW is supposed
to be about, and produced a baroque monstrosity that looked
like something hobbling along at the end of its product life,
instead of just starting out. I was rather disappointed.
Intel's best move now would be to give up, and rename Alpha
so they could release it and pretend they invented it.
Hopefully someone else will release a real VLIW microprocessor
some day. (VLIW has been done on big machines before, but never
on a microprocessor.)
 
The high end market doesn't really care about that. If you're
trying to compete with high-end IBM, Sun, and HP stuff, people
care that compilers are available, not word processors.
 
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