Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Well with 85% of the market and a huge marketing budget I would expect INTC to have a much easier time of it, but it will still be slow going for INTC. I expect acceptance to be slower than the EMT64/Nocona/Xeon offerings, a market AMD greased, but who knows? This time there won't be an AMD out there breaking the wind for them so it should be a little slower going. Not only that but it's going to have to compete with A64's on a value basis. If your big on encoding then you might want a Smithfield, but for most other applications a single core Athlon will probably be a more cost effective and better solution. As far as gaming goes there doesn't seem to be much reason for buying anything but an Athlon.

As I said though, if dualies take off I'm sure AMD will be happy to divert some of its' dual servers to the consumer market. I'm sure comparisons between dual A64s and Smithfields would be quite favorable toward AMD's product. That is if they have any to sell, and not because of any production problems? As you say, we'll see.