Re: Intel, AMD CPUs nothing more than alpha clones!

Alan Greig wrote:
> overhaul the x86, even though it sorely needs it. When Fab 36 cranks up,
> AMD will overcome that fear. AMD64 processors will take on performance,
> scalability, resource management, and availability-related instruction
> set extensions that will be proprietary to AMD CPUs.


Didn't AMD agree to let Intel use its 64 bit extensions designs ?

If those extra instructions are truly going to be proprietary, it is
probably to satisfy the requirements of Sun which is an AMD only shop
and wants to scale its 8086 systems up, so those instructrions are
probably going to help it.

BTW, yesterday, CNET reported that AMD's market share had now surpassed
20%. In some metrics , I have seen that it surpassed 10%. But all
reports agree that AMD is substantially increasing its market share.
.

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