lizardx - 7:58 pm on Jan 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Opteron won. You must have missed it. MS cancels Windows itanic support [theregister.com]

AMD took a very big gamble and dropped most 32 bit advances and research in favor of getting a working 64 bit processor out the door. The gamble paid off, their 64 bit standard won, Intels lost. Meanwhile Intel kept praying for itanic and their 32 bit 'extreme edition' processors, which were and are extremely overpriced.

Gamers, servers, etc, are all jumping to Optereron or other amd 64 bit options, AMD won another round, they won the XP 1600 - 2500 round too, but just not as convincingly.