Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

IMO AMD will definitely need to lower their prices while Penryn ramps, unless they only want to focus on HPC (which might not even be a bad idea).

I wonder how that will work out in practice. Barcelona has
twice as many cores and twice the peak flop/cycle per core
as K8. OTOH it initially shares the same socket so has the
same bandwidth limitations. Add in the fact that it clocks
at only 2/3 as fast as high end K8s and it isn't clear to me
how attractive it will be for HPC vs cheap K8s for many
classes of HPC applications.