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That must be why IBM, racksaver, appro, HP, Sun, etc. are reporting strong demand for Opteron, and adding Opteron SKUs.

Strong demand relative to what though? Are we talking 10K units? 100K units? 1M units? I'm thinking under 100K Opterons here...

You must've missed Intel slashing prices on its now-obsolete 32bit Xeon MP processors to below $1000 for the first time ever.

According to whom??? (1. that they're obsolete, 2. that it's the first time a Xeon branded part has been below $1K)

I imagine you are anxious about it. Ace's Hardware had a chance to ask AMD about that at CeBIT. The answer: the TDP for the 90nm Opteron family will be basically the same as the 130nm TDP: 89W.

I'll believe it when I see it... of course, no one has actually SEEN a 90nm AMD part that I'm aware of...