UPDATE 12/2/2009: It has been discovered that the information once contained in this article is false! It was a lie based off of a convincing fake profile created by eightforums.com. You can read all about it here: 128-Bit Kernel Support in Windows 8 and Windows 9: A Big, Fat Lie
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Its not a 128-bit processor in the sense that it doesn’t have 128-bit addressing or any 128-bit integer registers. What it DOES do is a new vector architecture that supports 128-bit (and, IIRC, 256-bit) SIMD. This is cool, but not that new, and it doesn’t make it a “128-bit processor.”
IIRC Intel’s AVX architecture extensions support similar things, up to 256-bit SIMD. But again… this is not that new.
w00t! Good work..
So long as I don’t have to make 128-bit builds of my apps, and worry about 128-bit shell extensions and video codecs, I don’t mind.
(Or, if I do, I hope x86 is killed off at the same time so there are still only two arcs to worry about instead of three.
One would be nicer, though.)
Of course, I imagine Adobe Reader and Flash will still be 32-bit by the time we’re using 1024-bit computing. Ahem!
When Windows for quantum computers will be available??? I can’t wait!
yeah I saw this at the http://www.eightforums.com about a week ago, Intel and AMD, ugh, they just keep changing hardware to push people into buying more and more
“Robert Morgan is working to get IA-128 working backwards with full binary compatibility on the existing IA-64 instructions in the hardware simulation to work for Windows 8 and definitely Windows 9.”
Since IA-64 is Itanium, this is presumebly related to the Itanium family, possibly the “Poulson” or “Kittson” processors.
Gizmodo just plagiarized this..
There you go..
Rhys: IA = Intel Architecture.
@bluvg: IA-64 is the Intel Itanium. I work with these machines for a living, I know what I’m talking about. The 64-bit architecture most people use is x86_64, not IA64.
Rhys, I work with them too. He’s not talking about Itanium here, and he’s not exactly very formal in his terminology. AMD has no Itanium counterpart.
hey!! I am writing an article on WINDOWS 8.Can you people guide me about this confusion about 128-bit?