<A HREF="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~19757,00.html" target="_new">Clickable</A>

I have good reasons to belive that one of those "developments" will be about a Microsoft OS built on the x86-64 ISA.

the other devlpment I think is going to be about a more technical matter, maybe the state of Hammer devlopment or the nVidia chipset. I belive it will be technical sence the person carrying the teleconference is Dirk meyer the leading archictect of the K7 and K8 core not some PR or VP, CEO etc.



This post is best viewed with common sense enabled<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by iib on 04/23/02 06:41 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Sounds about right to me, did they give a specific time tomorrow?

<font color=blue>If you don't buy Windows, then the terrorists have already won!</font color=blue> - Microsoft

it says: Time: 4:30 p.m. U.S. EDT
btw you guys on what the EDT time zone is in GMT? (ours is +2:00 GMT, Israel)
I want to listen in through web-cast.

This post is best viewed with common sense enabled

x86-64 support from Microsoft is imminent. This is what I have been trying to explain to the likes of Raystonn, Fugger and Meltdown over the last couple of weeks.

If this turns out to be true then its gonna cause one big hoo ha in the computer industry...time to get the beers in.

<font color=purple>Ladies and Gentlemen, its...Hammer Time !</font color=purple>

This is so good news!
This means big shot for AMD!
I wonder how Intel will react, now that MS will be definitly siding more often with AMD, who's technology totally fits well with WinXP, and would definitly sell in the future.
This will arguably force Intel to use x86-64 for Yamhill technology, otherwise using a new 64-bit alternative and expecting MS to support another type would contradict Bill Gates' statement of seperating Windows' into different styles would ruin it entirely.

--
Thunderbirds in wintertime, Northwoods in summertime!

There is already an IA64 Windows, why would Intel not be able to continue using that?

<font color=blue>If you don't buy Windows, then the terrorists have already won!</font color=blue> - Microsoft

They can use the IA64 Windows with the Itanium, but not with the Yamhill, which would be a x86-64 processor similar to the Hammer.

<i>Money talks. Mine always likes to say "goodbye." </i>

Because IA64 is not going to sell well in the Microsoft's primary market - the desktop. As you have said before, this is not its market. Yes, it is doing OK in the Windows Enterprise Edition market, but this won't compensate for Intel losses in the high-end 64bit desktop/workstation market (scientific number crunching, CAD, Video special effects processing, etc.) due to the lack of apps for IA64. Intel will most likely have to license x86-64 from AMD or clone it.

Microsoft is going to do anything it can to keep selling licenses of updated software - Win64 for IA64 is doing very little for them here - Win64 for x86-64 has the potential of becoming the new Windows "pro" version.

If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.

Actually, I think the X86-64 architecture is open sourced.

Mark-

<font color=blue>When all else fails, throw your computer out the window!!!</font color=blue>

Yes but in the Windows environment, which IMO WILL be the main center, it shouldn't be or else Windows will fall to Linux-like worlds.

--
Thunderbirds in wintertime, Northwoods in summertime!

Open sourced doesn't mean not licensed. It just means that anyone can license it for little or no cost. If Intel decides to license x86-64, they will have to follow AMD's restrictions, if any. If they decide to clone they have to do it "clean-room" style.

If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.

I doubt AMD would be hard-headed, after all they did get license for SSE from Intel, ya?
Maybe AMD would charge, I know Sanders is just itching for a wad of bills' from Intel's dirty hands, so I would bet they will ask for some moolah.

--
Thunderbirds in wintertime, Northwoods in summertime!

Taking bets? My guess (notice I said guess)

One of the announcements is obviously the Tbred.

The other will be the move to .13 Micron.

Just a lot of hype to make sure everyone knows the above if they didn't already.

You are limited to what your mind can perceive.

I have to agree. There has been no talk on technet, investor channels, or retailer channels about a OS from MS to support x86-64. Im sorry but I think you are reading into it too much. But hey stranger things have happened.

-Jeremy

<font color=blue>Just some advice from your friendly neighborhood blue man </font color=blue>

I have to disagree - MS already has Win64 for x86-64 functional - see my post & links under the AMD sides with MS = New Relations thread. The real question is whether or not MS will admit it publicly.

If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by ath0mps0 on 04/23/02 10:03 PM.</EM></FONT></P>