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[KeithDust2000]

wbmw, thanks for the reply, it is exactly the one I expected. I disagree with that though, and I´ll cut it short why I think that.

I´m very familiar with INTEL´s Xeon roadmap for 2004. What I can say is what INTEL has disclosed about it already:

XEON will migrate to the Prescott core (I´ve already said what to expect from it), it will be available at frequencies of 3.46 Ghz and much higher, will get a higher FSB and caches of 4 MB (and this is just for starters, those will be much bigger later in the year), will support DDR2, PCI Express etc. This is the biggest XEON push INTEL has ever made (due to increasing competition). AMD will have their hands full staying in the game. Now, what if they added 64bit support for that line? I do know that our customers would be more than satisfied with this line-up. There would be not a single compelling reason left for most server customers to go down the I2 route anymore, and it would never take off. Remember this: By the time Opteron was launched, the highest clocked Xeon MP was at 2 Ghz w/ 2mb cache, the fastest Xeon DP around 2.8 Ghz with 512kb cache. Look what we have now already, and what we´ll have next year, and you´ll see that regardless of I2´s new launches, the Xeon platform takes a huge leap forward.

The remaining "pros" of I2 would be far from enough for it succeed, not even talking about the "cons".

That´s just my opinion, we´ll see who´ll turn out right, by the time they introduce 64bit Xeons...