Re: [linux-audio-user] Intel Dual Core vs. AMD64

From: Allan Wind <allan_wind@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 12 2006 - 23:52:52 EEST

On 2006-09-12T11:09:04-0500, Chris Abbott wrote:
> They just basically get their hands on an AMD processor, figure out
> how it works, and make their own. One piece of evidence is that AMD
> came out with the first 64-bit x86 processor.

AMD licensed the x86 extensions (to x86 ) as an open architecture. This
was a smart strategy to derail wide adaption of Itanium.

/Allan
Received on Wed Sep 13 00:15:02 2006

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