Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

That puts the cost of CPUs at about $2.5million, ie not all that significant in the context of a $90m project. I
don't think a discount was required, Opteron just naturally isn't all that expensive.

I have to agree with your general point. The large, high I/O count system fabric ASIC made
by IBM Micro is likely many times more expensive than the Opteron it connects to.