Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[KeithDust2000]

pp, from the article you posted:

Last April, it launched the Opteron, a low-cost chip that could do some of what Itanium promised. The performance was good enough for most customers, and the Opteron chips cost an average of just $600. According to market research firm IDC, 35,000 servers were sold in 2003 with Opteron chips, compared with 19,000 servers with Itanium chips. But IDC notes that the Itanium servers typically had four processors, and were higher priced.

IIRC, about 5000 Opteron servers were sold in Q2, about 10000 in Q3, which would make it 20000 in Q4, up another 100% sequentially.

Interestingly, the number of Opteron servers sold in Q4 alone was higher than Itanium´s for the full year. My hats are off to AMD for pulling this off. Great job! Let´s see what they will be able to do in Q1.