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chr p

Let's talk chess: We're still in the opening. The point is not yet to make big inroads into hostile territory but to get your pieces out into a position before you can start an attack.
So i agree the revenues for next year from the SUN deal are pretty irrelevant. Even it AMD gives away hundreds of thousand serverchips for symbolic prices it is a successful move for AMD.

As for the Olympic Games, I would not be surprized at all if Intel offered Xeons for free for a while (better said a contribution for something in the value of its sales to SUN) for not going the Opteron-way. (You know, they are giving not only CPUs away but whole Servers and Software as well to seed the market with Itanium. Which is reasonable - should have done long before, because that they do it now after Madison is on the market for half a year it looks desperate.)

K.