रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Sep 30, 2025

A nice account of how #Intel spent far too much time & money with #HP on the doomed #Itanium 64-bit #CPU, only to be beaten by #AMD with #Athlon (with help from #Microsoft):

“The Long Mode Chronicles”, Phil Park (https://computerparkitecture.substack.com/p/the-long-mode-chronicles).

#Hardware #x86 #IA64

The Long Mode Chronicles

How the World Became x86-64 Inside

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“Athlon 64: How AMD Turned The Tables On Intel”, Dave Farquhar (https://dfarq.homeip.net/athlon-64-how-amd-turned-the-tables-on-intel/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376605

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/idcny5/athlon_64_how_amd_turned_tables_on_intel

#Intel #AMD #Athlon #Itanium #CPU #Hardware #x86 #IA64 #ISA

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel

Better 32-bit performance was worth trading some 64-bit performance to get

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