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[jhalada]

wbmw,

It will be in some workloads, but not in everything. I think Intel is doing all they can by making the next Xeon MP chipset connect to all the CPUs via point to point FSB links.

That should certainly lessen the bottleneck. It is going to be a monster chipset with 4 FSBs and number of memory channels.

If they can get this ramped up and with enough options by then, but I really doubt they will have this ecosystem ready

I think the ecosystem (for Torrenza) is ready. And while I wish I could see some general market potential for it, at the moment it is really onle a purely HPC play.

If it grabs a hand full of large installations, great, but it still won't contribute to sizable revenue amounts for quite some time yet. And I wouldn't count Intel out of this market, either, especially with them opening FSB licensing in the short term and moving to Geneseo in the long term.

HPC market is small when looking from Intel point of view, but when looking from point of of much smaller company (AMD) it is more significant. As far as Intel opening FSB, if I were to invest money in Intel solution, I would invest it in CSI, I would not waste money on soon to be discontinued FSB.

Joe