The AMD-FX 64 Chip was launched in San Francisco one year ago today. I was there; AMD flew 64 of us out to the city by the bay to be a part of history and to receive the first 64 AMD FX-64 bit chips. It was a great party; we were all extremely excited about embarking on the next platform of power computing.
One year later we are still waiting for the rest of the world to catch up. So little software has been written for the 64 bit platform, who would have thought we would still be waiting for Windows XP 64 Edition (and it’s going to be another six months at least). Drivers are very hard to come by and as for the promise of 16gigs of RAM show me a Motherboard manufacture who is producing 8 slots for memory.
I wish America was a nation of computer enthusiasts, we change jobs, cars and spouses more frequently then we upgrade PC’s. Has anyone ever seen the President emerge from his helicopter with a laptop bag or holding a Tablet PC? I’ll bet Osama bin Forgotten is booting-up a nice new AMD 64 Mobile Laptop running SUSE 64 Linux and sending Gmail invites to all his friends.
New technology is our heritage, invention and innovation should define us as Americans. Congratulations AMD, for giving us the power of 64 bit computing for our homes and offices, thank-you for the vision and all its possibilities.