That’s a particularly low blow considering AMD paid Intel for licenses.
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Intel’s own compilers refused to run SSE or SSE2 code on compatible AMD processors applications would check for the “GenuineIntel” string when running these programs rather than simply checking to see if SSE2 was supported on the processor. When SuperMicro introduced an Opteron motherboard in 2005, the company refused to acknowledge its existence. There were always off-the-record conversations with nervous motherboard vendors about why their AMD product samples shipped in plain white boxes, or why the motherboards lacked brand names. One thing we know more about now than we did then is just how much pressure Intel brought to bear on everyone, behind the scenes. LGA775 did nothing to change matters, while AMD’s Socket 939 made dual-channel memory standard across the entire Athlon 64 product line. At the time, I could rest my hand on identical power supplies of identically configured Prescott and Northwood systems running the same workload, and tell which system was which by the temperature of the PSU chassis. It clocked higher than the old Northwood P4, but ran markedly slower and drew far more power. The Socket 478 version of Prescott was hot enough to ignite the power supplies inside supposedly certified SFF (Small Form Factor) systems and melt the plastic under motherboard testbeds. Part of what gave the Athlon 64 family legs was that Intel’s next-generation CPU architecture, which debuted in 2004, launched with all the grace of a dead manatee. But AMD neatly captured “seamless upgrade” as a marketing feature in a way Intel couldn’t.
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64-bit Windows wouldn’t be available until April 2005, and wouldn’t start to gain much traction until Windows Vista in early 2007. AMD’s x86-compatible version of 64-bit computing preserved perfect 32-bit compatibility. As originally conceived, Intel’s IA64 was an Itanium-only architecture, but Itanium, in the long run, was to form the bedrock of Intel’s 64-bit plans. AMD’s x86-64 instruction set, meanwhile, was a brilliant counterstroke against Intel’s own long-range plans.
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