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Synopsis
The story of this article is based on an announcement made by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) that explains that they plan to stop producing 32-bit processors by the end of 2005. The vice president and general manager of AMD’s Microprocessor Business Unit made the statement during a panel discussion on the company’s 64-bit processors at the Comdex show in Las Vegas. Although AMD intends to keep selling 32-bit chips as long as customers want them, as the price of AMD’s 64-bit Opteron and Athlon 64 processors drop, customers will have less reason to purchase 32-bit processors. This may occur in part because its new 64-bit chips are designed to also run 32-bit applications without taking a hit in performance.
Approximate Word count = 575
Approximate Pages = 2.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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