So again, as in years past, we have a situation in which AMD jumps ahead, before Intel pounces and claims ownership of a market, as it is almost is surely ready to do now for 64 bit desktop, as well as for, 64 bit server applications.

By doing so, will Intel kill the 64 bit market? But did Intel kill the processor market with its Pentium 4, which was initially slower than the Pentium 3, before AMD came out with its XP processors?

There are some conspiracy theorists out there who contended during the 1980s that the U.S. and, what was then, the USSR, would never destroy each other and the rest of the world at the same time because they were in fact really the same country. Documented clandestine meetings between the leaders of the two countries and secret grain shipments from the U.S. to the U.S.S.R. proved this theory. Market share balance aside, albeit a bit lopsided, especially in the enterprise sector, Intel and AMD will likely continue to co-exist, like the U.S. and the USSR, like Lennon and McCartney during the Beatles era.

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