Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Google goes Opteron

Well this made my day. Thanks Keith.

If anyone missed it please DO give it a read:

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/14/technology/techinvestor/tech_biz/index.htm?section=money_latest

Lots to like, I picked this bit:

"By adapting tricks it has learned from a decade of making 64-bit servers using its own Sparc chips, Sun has pulled off some technical feats that Dell (Research), Hewlett-Packard (Research), and IBM have yet to match. The x4100, for example, manages 50 percent more performance, according to Sun, while consuming a third of the power and a quarter of the space of a comparable Dell server. It does this primarily by using the latest dual-core chips from AMD, while Dell uses less-efficient single-core chips from Intel."