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INTC may call Smithfield a DC, but it isn't even remotely in the same league with DC Opterons. However, INTC marketing did its' job again fooling Joe Sixpack and probably a lot of people that shouldn't be fooled so easily. Let's see how many of these Frankenstein monsters INTC sells in the next six months. Hopefully, they will do well enough that AMD is encouraged to release the real thing into the consumer market.

Actually, while I don't think the market for consumer DCs will be very large for awhile there should be some demand at very high prices for a few. Given that it would cost next to nothing for AMD to come up with a consumer Opteron derivative it might not be a bad idea. In any case I would love to read what AnandTech would have to say about the comparison with Smithfield.