Hammer Rumors

zengeos

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Good weekend to all, and here is a brief article I read at Van's Hardware:

<A HREF="http://www.vanshardware.com/articles/2001/august/010831_Model_3500/010831_Model_3500.htm" target="_new">http://www.vanshardware.com/articles/2001/august/010831_Model_3500/010831_Model_3500.htm</A>

The article outlines the current rumors about the performance, initial speed and rough timeframe we might see Hammer. Interesting reading, BUT it is based on a variety of rumors, some more confirmavble or trustworthy than others, perhaps. In any case, it offers what some folks may find exciting information.

Mark-

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Matisaro

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On special apps, which bear the same penalty as sse2 etc, no one uses them yet, and it takes a long time to get saturation.

~Matisaro~
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AmdMELTDOWN

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oh, don't be mad because you can't run UT on a Itanium, have you tried it on the Sun or Alpha or maybe MIPS based processors.

fyi, there's about 200 software and hardware vendors developing for the Itanium right now, as you sit there while playing with your video games, futzing with your secuirity blanket(tbird) and sucking on your thumb.

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Matisaro

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Meltdoofus, I merely stated a fact about comparing 2 different processors, is there something there that offends you?

PS:your flames are ignorant and make you look like a moron, unless you havent noticed the 100% scorn you recieve from everyone except for fugger and juin.

As for rcf, I meant that the epic instruction set must be coded for, yes? If so its benifits will not become apparent untill the applications take advantage of it, so comparing a hammer and itanium is rather pointless.

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zengeos

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hmmm...
200 developers coding for Itanium vs tens of thousands of apps already compatible with Hammer and little more than a recompile needed for most existing 32 bit apps to work on Hammer @ 64 bit.

Interesting point though.




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