Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

if the power dissipation of Madison is not such a problem, why would they release a castrated and
pretty slow Deerfield?

Pretty slow? I guess that's in the eye of the beholder. Compared to the SunBlade 150 I had on my
desk until recently, I'd take a Deerfield box over it in a millisecond if the right software is there.

As for why, that is quite obvious. Why was the 386SX marketed? Or the 486SX?, Or the Celeron?
To establish lower price/performance points to sell more silicon and expand market share. The
Deerfield will allow Intel to provide an IPF processor at 3 figure price for systems that sell at low
4 figure prices while continuing to sell its big brother (probably the same die, that's the funny part)
for 4 figures.

Why also Sun has this requirement that the cpu used in blades consumes no more than 16 W?

Their mech eng and system packaging guys can't design blades worth crap?