Der Schöpfer des Open-Source Betriebssystem-Kernels Linux, Linus Torvalds, hat sich in einem Interview mit CNET News über die beiden 64-Bit Alternativen IA64 (Intel/Itanium) und x86-64 (AMD/Opteron) geäußert. Offenbar macht der Chefentwickler keinen Hehl daraus, daß der IA64 Weg, den Intel mit dem Itanium eingeschlagen hat, bei ihm keine Begeisterungsstürme auszulösen vermag:
"I really dislike IA-64. I think it's a losing strategy," Torvalds said. "My personal hope is that IA-64 withers and dies because there's no point. It performs badly; it's expensive; it's an all-new instruction set."
"The reason Intel was so hugely successful was they went for the mass market, for normal users. They went for all the things that Intel stands for today," he said. AMD is staying truer to that philosophy, he said. "I find AMD's approach a lot more interesting, which is to replace a 32-bit Athlon with a 64-bit Athlon...They come from below and eat up all the high-performance big computers."
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