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One of the large trumps of the Hammer-platform is that the chips as source 32- as 64-availed code can export. Intels Itanium can that not, whatever heavily exploited becomes by the PR-division of AMD. Intel tries its rival now the wind from the sails to take through a software-update from to bring through which the Itanium better in state would be round 32-availed code out to lead.

For although the large pluspunt of 64-availed processors is that they more fast special written code can export and more memory can address, IT-managers want naturally also their old applications can export. The Hammer-platform, of which the Opteron just launched is, offers double (hardware) support for 32-availed (as uses through the Athlon and P4) and 64-bit. By the Itanium lies that otherwise: in principle is the Intel-chip also IA-32-compatibel only as for speed puts that not much for.

Intel is about that of plan a softwarematig alternative to launch, the so-called IA-32 Execution Layer. With this simulatiesoftware, it would be round 32 availed source possible-code, as Windows-applications to lead, with a reliable speed out. Intel self maintains will that an Itanium 2 , 1.5 GHz a Xeon MP 1.5 GHz equators. Not as fast as the fastest Xeon, but meanwhile pieces better then formerly.

Moreover finds Intel that not so awful: as customers rush 32-availed applications want to export, must they only invest in apparatuses with Xeons, rings the there. IA-32 Execution Layer will as a plugin by the operating system be furnished; conversations will at the course its with Microsoft and different Linux-verdelers.

If the software a success becomes, will the Itanium possibly adapted become. The original 32-availed compatibility is then no longer necessary and that can then best removed become from the chip design self. That would mean that the Itanium from hardware viewpoint excluding 64-availed becomes.