New Intel Celeron Plans

[ceh4702]

Intel has plans for a new Celeron in Q2 with twice the cache size and 64 bit support.

http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/16/intel_desktop_roadmap/

I was looking at this and I was wondering if MS was going to start pushing a move to their 64 bit OS. To do so they would really need both Intel and AMD involved.

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[cdogg]

Well, like the current Athlon 64's and Prescott "D" CPU's, they are all still x86 processors capable of 32-bit or 64-bit. Therefore, the "push" to going completely 64-bit won't happen based on the release of this "Cedar Mill" Celeron. I don't think it introduces anything new, just that it's a lower cost version of what's already out there with more L2 cache.

There are still many applications that run faster under a 32-bit environment, than they do under 64-bit. Plus, a majority of apps that the casual user demands haven't been ported over to 64-bit yet.

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[kmcferrin]

Not only will Intel have 64-bit Celerons (I actually thought that they already did), but AMD will/does have 64-bit Sempron CPUs as well. Before the end of 2006 just about any CPU that you could buy will support the x86-64/AMD64 instruction set.

When Microsoft eventually ships Vista (assuming by the end of 2006) there will supposedly be separate x86-64 and IA32 versions. There will probably continute to be a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit applications until the next release of Windows after that, at which point it will become fully 64-bit. When Windows shifted from 16-bit to 32-bit, essentially the same thing happened. Windows NT was 32-bit with some 16-bit support (via WOW), and Windows 95 was a 16/32-bit hybrid/mish-mash. It took quite some time before the majority of people were using 32-bit apps on 32-bit Windows (and there are still some people using 16-bit apps today!), though I suspect that the transition will be a little faster this time around (more like 3-4 years instead of the 5-8 that the 32-bit transition has taken).