Intel's mysterious 'Yamhill' technology - the chip giant's answer to AMD's AMD64 architecture - is a runner, but won't appear before 2005, a report from investment research organisation American Technology Research (ATR) has claimed.
Rumours that Intel is working on Yamhill, a set of 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set, have abounded for as long as AMD has been known to be working on similar technology, if not longer.
AMD's version, originally dubbed x86-64 but now known as AMD64, finally made it to market in April when the company shipped its first Opteron processors for workstations and servers. The technology will make it into the mainstream in September when the consumer-oriented Athlon 64 ships.
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