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“Financial services is certainly one market that is likely to adopt [64-bit technology] fairly quickly. Financial services, in the last few years, have been the commercial users among the most open to new technologies. IT is the core of their business and the ability to crunch data and to glean information from that data is really core to their business.”

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“64-bit technology is really about performance, is really about the inevitable advancement of computer architectures that deliver that performance. Just as 16-bit advanced to 32-bit, 32-bit is going to advance to 64-bit. The only question is the timing. And that's one of the nice things about having compatibility between 32-bit and 64-bit. The end user doesn't really need to worry about the timing so much. We all know how hard it is to pin an exact date or an exact time on IT transitions.”

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“When we talk about 64-bit computing and AMD's role in that, there is 64-bit computing today but it is a relatively speaking high-end, non-mass market type of phenomenon. It's something you see in big databases, relatively high-performance computing, relatively high-end applications. The question is as transition occurs, how is 64-bit going to come to serve the masses, as it inevitably must? And an architecture or technology that lets that sort of transition happen cost effectively and easily is going to be very attractive for those mass market applications.”