Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[imho]

Chipdesigner,

You are probably right about the low end. How about the high end?

But IBM believes Intel, not AMD, is the best way to go for high-end servers.

"We continue to evaluate whether that makes sense," Bretzmann said of IBM's Opteron evaluation. "But in the commercial space, all we would really do is confuse the sales force and maybe suboptimize our investment. We think we've made the right bet with the Intel architecture. It's the most validated, the most reliable, and customers accept it."

http://news.com.com/IBM+debuts+new+top-end+Intel+server/2100-1010_3-5728282.html?tag=nefd.top

IMHO