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Posted Tuesday 31st March 2009 10:04 GMT
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AMD did the transformation, and it was to 64-bit

AMD was responsible for the x86 platform going from 10% to 50% in the last decade because their 64-bit implementation got traction for being affordable, sensible, and backwards compatible.

Everything in Nehalem is an incremental upgrade, or a gimmick on an incremental upgrade, except the MMU virtualization. (This piece finally obsolesces the fancy software technology in VMware, and makes VMware just another front-end on the hardware.)

If Intel had their way, then Sparc would still be leading because the alternative would be Itanic.

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