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Who remembers PowerPC?
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@takeappleakenji Who remembers Itanium?
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@archaeme Intel Itanium ?
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@archaeme I remember it being hyped a metric truckload back in 2000 or so, it was supposed to be the absolute enterprise sollution for datacenters and whatnot, but I think what happned in the end is that people just instead prefered to buy Xeon powered machines for the same workload. ... Also Intel Itanium was HORRIBLE with 32 bit anything. But what I mostly remember were the sale forecasts which were about as dissapointing as the WiiU was.
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@critialcloudkicker It mostly died out once AMD introduced x86_64 from what I've seen.
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@archaeme Ohyeah, good old AMD. I almost always forget about those lovable brand the moment we're beginning to talk about high-end stuff. Mostly because they no longer seem to make high end consumer-grade hardware, and have settled nice in the middle field. I do really hope 2017 is the year that stuff like RYZEN will give Intel a run for their money though. Aswell as whatever they are doing with GPU's
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@critialcloudkicker Ryzen looks promising from what I've seen, but we'll have to wait and see.
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@archaeme Too bad waiting is not one of my strong suits. Also I am seeing more and more CPU abuse on Reddit boards ( especially PCMR ) just because Ryzen is not out yet.
But the way some people are talking about it ( mainly online, and I know of at least one guy who can not seem to shut up about it ) you'd think Jesus was coming.
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