“Ever since the turn of the century, information technology has been adopted at an ever-increasing speed by a wider sector of the community. Today, information systems of government departments and private enterprises, as well, are processing video, audio and non-formatted data at terabyte speeds. Given the trend, the demand for 64-bit processors with powerful data processing ability and an enormous address space is expected to continue to rise to even higher levels.

Until now, the relatively slow development of I/O technologies has failed to offer the support needed by a 64-bit processor to deliver its optimal performance. We are pleased to see the recent adoption of new technologies such as network storage, iSCSI, SATA, InfiniBand, 10GB Ethernet, OC-192 and PCI-X as these new technologies can help relieve the performance bottleneck formed at I/Os. Whichever way you look at it, the future of the 64-bit processor is more promising than ever before.

Like all other end-users, we are looking forward to the day when 64-bit computing will become the mainstream configuration of computing systems. The introduction of the [AMD 64] architecture will undoubtedly speed up this process and expedite the final adoption of 64-bit computing by the majority of the end-users.”