http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1269036,00.asp
The CTO at Intel opines that desktop PCs will not need 64-bit computing for several more years. Of course the fact that AMD has a backwards-compatible 64-bit chip available and Intel does not has nothing to do with this expression of viewpoint. Nor does the existence of the Apple G5 line.
Seems to me I can remember something like this before, when the 32-bit processor was first mooted: "Who will need a GB of memory?" was the rallying cry then. There is no reason to think the future will be the same as the past, unless, of course, we have reason to think so -- and in this case, I suspect we do.
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Posted by: mevacor at November 15, 2004 05:23 AM