Chapter 17. Hewlett-Packard's Scalable Processor Chipset

“Whatever computer you can build, people will take advantage of that situation...you can envision a system that's far more intelligent. It could be far more intelligent about everything. It could do all sorts of pattern matching about your last accesses and really understand so that you could ask queries against it. All sorts of great things that can come from millions more [CPU] cycles.”

—Jerry Huck

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The 64-bit world is rapidly changing by pushing the boundaries of price and performance unexpectedly far. Once the exclusive preserve of proprietary, high-margin RISC ...

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