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LinkAMDZone.com said:Well several of you sent this news in. Intel has been broken, and will be demoing a 64 bit version of Xeon next month at IDF. Unfortunately grafting on 64 bit doesn't give you HyperTransport or an integrated memory controller. Performance will not match Opteron, and in fact the current performance delta will not change as a result. What will change is 64 bit support will accelerate for everyone.
The demo, which follows the AMD64 approach of Intel foe Advanced Micro Devices, is expected at the Intel developer conference, Feb. 17 through 19 in San Francisco, said sources familiar with the plan. Intel had code-named the technology Yamhill but now calls it CT, sources said.
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This should help bring 64bit to servers, workstations and even the desktop a lot quicker. More programs made since they know Intel will soon be behind this movement.
And AMD64 has it's advantages with hypertransport/intergrated memory controller still.
Intel adopting AMD64 extentions for X86 is good.