[Pc_Support] AMD spouts marketing speak regarding future plans

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 22:02 -0400, Damien McKenna wrote:
> http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2565
> Lots of buzz words.

Yes bay-bee!  This is what I was hoping for!

2007+ is when new AMD64 extensions will _break_ i486 TLB compatibility,
and move beyond the current 48-bit/PAE52 approach.  It will do this in
its multi-core, virtualized, partitioned processor, which can
instantiate individual 48-bit/PAE52 and 32-bit/PAE36 virtual processors.
This will indeed bring more capabilities while each virtualized
processor will remain fully compatible with existing x86-64 and i486 ISA
while also offering mainframe-class reliability.

Intel is not even looking at this, is playing games with their extremely
aging Pentium M (PPro-P3) based core through 2007+.  I'm sure AMD's is
not going to share how they are doing this, and Intel will once again
fall beyond and saved only by their fabrication technology lead.



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