Analysts cheer AMD, Dell and Microsoft as x86-64-bit winners (Register)

[Posted March 18, 2004 by cook]

The Register looks at competing developments in the 64 bit processor field. "However, IBM is also starting to push its own POWER processor family for 64-bit Linux," Haff wrote. "The upcoming broad-based shift to 64-bits will be a disruptive event that - in the absence of a single dominant architecture as x86 became for 32-bit computing - creates a breakout opportunity for POWER. But x86 extensions provide an alternative path-of-least-resistance for potential Linux-on-POWER buyers, just as they do for Itanium customers. That makes Linux-on-POWER as a mainstream option - never an easy strategy to realize - even more challenging."

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