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Sunday, 04/20/2003 7:12:01 AM

Sunday, April 20, 2003 7:12:01 AM

A few notes on Opteron from extremetech.com article

1) Though TDP is @80W, Hester says reality is closer to 40W, leaving lots of headroom for higher clocked CPUs.

2) Avnet says stock of the processors is sufficient to support launch and increased demand through the quarter.

3) Though it appears there won't be a tier1 at launch, it appears to be because they haven't completed their proprietary board design yet. Brookwood expects that landing a tier1 will add about one percentage point to the 2 points he expects in increased market share(annual increase) that the tier2s and white boxers will bring.

4) Einux says demand for Opteron is 8-10 times greater than for Athon MP.

5) nVidia Crush K8 should be shipping in volume in June. Workstations, anyone?

Tuesday looks to be an interesting day.
Paul
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1034626,00.asp