Re: HP abandons Itanium2 in workstations

["Louis Elrod" <louis.elrod@bluecurveconsulting.com>]

They are actually fairly similar but yet different. The overall
architecture is the same but the Opteron is designed to work with
ECC/Registered memory and SMP configurations where as the Athlon 64 is
designed to be a next generation desktop processor.

>
> On Monday, Sep 27, 2004, at 09:32 US/Central, dsavage@peaknet.net wrote:
>> AMD's Athlon processors now power more than half of all PCs sold.
>> Their Opteron
>> and Athlon64 x86-64 processors are headed toward dominance in the
>> workstation and server markets ...
>
> What's the difference between the Opteron and the Athlong64?  Are they
> not the same thing?
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
> http://www.cwelug.org/~rwcitek
>
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