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AMD's Hammer Technology
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| Sat Sep 23, 2000 | 6:22P| PermaLink |
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"The question that many people have been asking is why do we need 64-bit CPU's?
The answer is that many new applications need to address large amounts of physical and virtual memory. This includes the above-mentioned high-end servers, large databases, and CAD tools. However, this is where AMD's approach is different from Intel's IA-64 approach. Intel has decided that a break from the x86 model was required."
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FULL STORY @
PCMECH
(http://www.pcmech.com/article.htm?hammer)
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