Intel Corp (INTC)

[Dan3]

Re: I guess he never heard of 40W Woodcrest LV chips before.

LOL!! You're comparing something that won't be available for months to something that's was first on the shelves months ago.

By the time Intel has serious volume of their future products available, AMD will have serious volumes of future products available, too.

Keep in mind that during all the years that AMD has maintained its current power/performance lead, one that dwarfs anything that Intel might manage for a couple months, share has changed only at a rate of a couple of percent a month.

With K8L being available a quarter or two after woodcrest (and being supported by AMD's superior socket 1207 platform infrastructure that will be available concurrent with woodcrest availability), it makes no sense for companies to do anything other than continue their migration away from Xeon CPU systems and towards the Opteron platform.

The Opteron platform is proven, more scalable than "big PC" Xeon platform, and the Opteron platform supports specialized coprocessors for TOE, encryption, 3D, compression, Floating Point, etc. Opteron platforms are being made available with Reliability, Availability, and Scalability features to rival Itanium.

Woodcrest Xeon and its platform is simply a big PC - compared to Opteron, Woodcrest Xeon isn't really a server.