Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Just catching up

I found the Sun/AMD presentation very interesting, particularly page 27 which shows a 22watt saving for Opterons over Xeons with Opterons memory controller built into the chip. When you look at the cost savings, both at purchase and over the life of the chip, you have to wonder why anyone would be buying Xeons? The savings listed are annual for a 500 2processor Opteron farm, but don't include floor space costs which could be even more than just energy costs.

http://de.sun.com/solutions/industries/edu/info-center/pdf/AMD64_Technology.pdf

I'm not so sure about the schedules mapped out though. Considering the way AMD was able to push up the Turion schedule, and the advances we've seen lately in the process area, I would guess that a lot of the dates are subject whatever pressure INTC can produce.