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The chip will debut at around 2GHz and come out with a performance rating number in the mid-3,000s, added Dirk Meyer,

Is AMD completely confused with their Opteron strategy?
I ask this because AMD keeps clinging to their Quantihurtz model numbering system - which compares an AMD CPU to a Pentium 4 running retail/consumer software applications.

Out of one side of AMD's mouth, they claim that Opteron will compete with Intel's Xeon.
Well, Intel's Xeon is not generally used to run office applications or games - it is used to run server-specific applications - or workstation applications.
More often than not, Xeons are used in 2-way or 4-way configurations, sometime 8-way or more.
Hence, why would any customer care about an artificial model number for an Opteron CPU based on desktop software in a single cpu mode, when their targeted application is 2-way (or higher) running server and/or workstation applications?

AMD keeps clinging to their retail white box fan base but this will be a pitifully small market for their Opterons.

Now, will AMD re-characterize their model hurtz rating using TCP- type tests for server-specific applications? After all, that, they claim, is their "market" goal.
Or will they just be laughed out of corporate accounts with their quake 3 model rating roots and numbers?

-SZ