Intel begins shipping 64-bit processors...quietly.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-08-06 12:54am

Well, Intel finally caught on and are now way behind AMD and IBM in the 64-bit processor market

Ironically, it wasn't even an official announcement on it- IBM and others suddenly are shipping 64-bit Xeons. Intel did it quietly.

http://eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticl ... D=26805631
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0 ... 37&tid=126

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-08-06 01:33pm

Intel has been shipping 64-bit processors for years.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-08-06 01:44pm

Yeah, I thought they had, there's just no fanfare because truly 64-bit OS' are rare in the general masses of PCs and we also have the oft cited problem of some idiots getting 64-bit chipsets to run 32-bit operating systems or vise versa.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-08-06 02:27pm

phongn wrote:Intel has been shipping 64-bit processors for years.

It's not just EPIC either, i860/i960 has been shipping since the early 90's.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-08-06 02:35pm

phongn wrote:Intel has been shipping 64-bit processors for years.

Yes, they've been shipping Itanium's, but this is a Xeon with 64-bit extensions. Xeon is based on P4. That means they almost have a P4 with 64-bit extensions...Xeons can run XP (32-bit, and this new one, the 64-bit as well), so technically this would run as a desktop.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-08-06 02:36pm

Praxis wrote:
phongn wrote:Intel has been shipping 64-bit processors for years.
Yes, they've been shipping Itanium's, but this is a Xeon with 64-bit extensions. Xeon is based on P4. That means they almost have a P4 with 64-bit extensions...Xeons can run XP (32-bit, and this new one, the 64-bit as well), so technically this would run as a desktop.

Thank you Captain Obvious.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-08-06 05:10pm

The Kernel wrote:Thank you Captain Obvious.

No problem. Anytime.

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