Pentium M costs £27,000, Itanium supports EM64T

THE PENTIUM M is a great chip but we think perhaps that asking £27,365.81 for one is going a little bit too far.

That's the price on this page.

And while the Itanium 2 is no doubt a very competent piece of microarchitecture, since when has it supported EM64T?

It appears true, according to sources, that while IPF does not support native execution of EMT64 code, Intel may have switched over from using the built in X86 decoders to an IA-32 software layer translating X86 code into native IA-64 executables.

So you just bung EMT64 into the the new software layer, so to speak.

Now isn't that what Mike Fister from Intel was trying to tell us and loads of American hacks five years ago? That everything was possible?!?

As you can see from these screen shots: µ