3) in response to some comments, 'fusing off' the 64 bit isa doesn't mean there's an unused 64 but data path on silicon... it's merely disabling the decoding of amd64 opcodes into the uops that are actually executed on the existing execution units.

2) it was hilarious the number of senior folks inside Intel who genuinely believed AMD copied amd64 from Intel. As an employee it was an effective way to tell apart the folks who had technical merit vs the folks who just got promoted for drinking the coolaid

Awesome post, thanks for cataloging all that. A few thoughts:

1) ia64/itanium was actually an incredible success if you measure it not by sales but by it completely neutralizing all the RISC alternatives (which of course may have also happened without itanium, but it definitely helped)

hey! Thanks for the video since i couldn't be in there for it.

I'm not sure if you heard it, but over in track two, we all yelled out "Great Talk Micah" at the same time hoping you'd hear it. I think the last second of your video captured the "Great Tal..." of it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYy...

and now i notice the typo...

This was at the Cyber Crime Gala - meme warfare edition, at labscon in sept. I got a second run of it on Halloween at hackaday supercon.

i see a grain of rice in there!

Lol. Sometimes @dcuthbert.bsky.social scares me.

Yeah, hauling the PnP machine to vegas was a pain but well worth it. Thank goodness for small desktop-sized machines. My favorite part was taking a picture of 6 people all standing around taking video of it assembling their boards.

I'm most excited about the rapid prototyping/hardware implants classed, because I updated them and I'm going to bring a pick&place machine to help assemble the implants we build.