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HP Eager to Sell Dual-Core Servers, Unfazed By Dell Rumors

...This transition to dual-cores is going pretty much as expected--which means quite fast," says Cumings, who declined to provide shipment numbers (so he could keep his job). "The beauty of the dual-core solution is that you get more performance without paying the power penalties." Tines took a jab at IBM's Power4 and Power5 processors, which show excellent performance, but which run pretty hot. Then again, so does the Itanium processor that the other side of HP's server house--the Business Critical Servers unit--loves so well. What Cumings would say is that the majority of Opteron-based ProLiant sales have dual-core processors in them. He added that customers in the financial services and high performance computing areas were among the early adopters of dual-core servers, mainly because of their need for extra bang while staying in the same electricity and cooling budget...

...By virtue of AMD having delivered a full line of dual-core, 64-bit processors well ahead of Intel, HP was able to get the jump on a lot of vendors because of its relatively early and enthusiastic support of the Opteron. The big question mark is what will happen to HP's momentum in dual-core servers, which is driven mostly by actual Opteron sales and hopeful expectations for Paxville and Dempsey sales, when and if Dell goes toe-to-toe with HP with a line of Opteron and another line of Xeon dual-core servers. There are rumors, yet again, that Dell is pondering a move to Opterons for notebooks, desktops, and servers.

"Who knows what Dell is going to do," says Cumings with a laugh. "But whatever Dell does, it is not going to change our product line or our strategy. We are leading in a new market--as we tend to do--and they are playing catch up."
http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn011206-story01.html

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