[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They may already have things ready in the Prescott!

[Boundless]

> They may already have things ready in the Prescott!

They do.

Most of the content in today's announcement evidently
came during the Q&A. Intel downplayed it during the
keynote. They probably did not want it to be the top
story from today's IDC (lotsa luck).

The new instructions are called IA-32e (e for extended).
It will be hard to market it as true 64-bit with that name.

It is not IA-64 (Itanium) compatible.

It is "mostly" AMD64 compatible, but strangely, can't run
today's Linux64/AMD.

If may be BIOS-based. It may be EFI-based. We don't know.

It is not at all clear just exactly what IA-32e is, or
how it works. It may turn out to be some sort of emulation.

No word on performance, and none expected for some time.

All that is known for sure is that Intel has just shipped a
pile of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt).

INTC was up on the day.
AMD faintly down on an otherwise up tech day.