Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[fastpathguru]

If you look back I allso stated that IMHO itanic would be relegated to a niche market.
Thats exactly where it's headed. In my opinion intel will never recoupe it's R & D.
I'm sure the intel investors will, at some point, wake up to that fact.

Me too. :)

There's a huge disconnect between the cost of developing (and continuing to develop) the Itanium, just for a niche market.

And Opteron (and it's successors) will continue to be developed into this market. It is essentially one chip (a coherency-bounding HTT switch) away from taking over.

Quad Opterons in a blade? 52 blades in one rack? Oofah!

fpg