Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipdesigner]

I think the competition between Opteron and Xeon is generating solutions that attack the last remaining IPF niche: large, single-image systems. There's already no reason to use it in any other case. Even with superior FP performance, it doesn't have superior FP price-performance.

And look, IBM just announced a 64-way single-image chipset for Xeon, and we have similar Opteron stuff coming from Sun/Serverworks and Newisys.

I think that will continue.