After failing to make Itanium competitive, Intel is now downplaying
64-bit CPU's. Of course, they didn't think that until Itanium failed.
Here is the slashdot story:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/2050237&mode=nested&tid=118
Seems AMD's hammer is going to be the popular 64-bit desktop CPU.
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