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[Mysef]

SemiconEng,
re:fwiw, It is Certainly more cost efficient, to make 90nm devices on 300mm wafers, then 130nm devices on 200mm wafers.

Guess it depends how you define efficient. If your goal is to gain marketshare from AMD with Celerons in $399 DELLs, knock yourself out.
Mysef


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HP recommending Opteron over Xeon?

From the HP DL585 Q&A:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantdl585/que...

Q1. What types of applications see the most performance benefit from Opteron technology?
A1. Applications that require high bandwidth and low latency access to system memory benefit from Opteron technology, especially true for high performance cluster computing but also applicable to a large number of commercial applications as well.

2-way and 4-way platforms based upon Opteron technology provide more than the system memory bandwidth at lower latencies than current Xeon and Xeon MP based platforms. Also, Opteron technology allows memory and I/O resources to scale with additional processing power providing increased levels of system resources as computing needs increase. Combining resource scaling with Opteron's Hyper Transport technology allows for those system resources to be shared effectively across all processing units benefiting many multi-threaded applications and provides for high levels of scalability from UP to DP to 4-way processing.

Additionally, customers who need to run existing 32-bit applications along with 64-bit applications can benefit from the simultaneous 32-bit and 64-bit computing capabilities of Opteron technology. In those environments, 32-bit application performance is not compromised. Also, applications that need large memory addressing such as those with large datasets (financial and scientific modeling applications) or must manage a large number of concurrent users or application threads such as large databases and data warehouse applications for solutions in customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and digital rights management (DRM) systems can benefit from Opteron's low latency memory architectures.

Seems like HP is touting the Opteron as a superior server architecture vs. Xeon to me.

Gary.