That's interesting that the new 6Mb-cached speed grade of the fastest Intel cpu is only one speed grade faster than 1Mb-cached Opteron. Just the second one, with 1.4Ghz/4mb is in the same performance and price cathegory.
At the same time AMD managed to have 7 models priced below Itanium, covering the whole range of tasks and budgets, that are completely out of Itanium reach.
The IT manager is gived the choice that if he goes 100% Intel he will need platform #1 for datacenter, platform #2 for webservers, platform #3 for workstations, platform #4 for cheap desktops, and platform #5 for laptops.
If he choses to go AMD instead, he will have platform #1 for datacenter, webservers and workstations, platform #2 for webservers, workstations, cheap desktops and laptops.
Pick the best.
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