Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[neye_eve]

Jules, I for one am hoping IPF doesn't die out...

... heck, probably the worst thing for AMD is for INTC to say h3ll with Itanium, and focus all of its 64 bit efforts on Xeon64EMT (whatever the technical term is these days). Once INTC decides that IPF shouldn't be getting exclusive RAS support, it will once again have a decided mindshare advantage over AMD in the x86 server space. after all, they're INTC, and they know corporate needs (true or not, probably true IMO, it's the perception).

As long as IPF drags out as a contender, some of the higher-end support has to be left out of EMT64.

Really, who among the amd longs wasn't a bit worried when INTC publicized that it was doing EMT64? Sure, there's silver linings along the lines of "now MS *has* to do windows" and "now it's legitimized", but I really see a souped up EMT64 chip as a stronger competitor to Opteron in its target market than Itanium is.

take that FWIW (pro'lly not much),
neye