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wbmw, Does it need to beat Itanium to be successful?
Depends on what you mean. By "trash" I mean beat it in benchmarks. Yes, I think to be successful Opteron must show that on some configurations and on some benchmarks it is faster than Itanium. And I'm confident it will.

If you claim that new 50% faster Itanium will come soon, then don't forget that Opteron scales better and is smaller and cheaper. If you think 4-way Madison will be faster than 4-way Opteron (which is not a fact, maybe it will not), just take 8-way Opteron. You don't have to compare 4-to-4, why should you? Compare rack-to-rack.