if one of the majors wanted to do a 4 socket server they would want fully functional parts for 6 months or so to do system level validation.
So that 6 month clock won't start ticking for quite some time. With Penryn being much closer in design to C2D based QC, would that cut down the qualifying time? You see where I'm going here.
>> if one of the majors wanted to do a 4 socket server they would want fully functional parts for 6 months or so to do system level validation
gb, I think that's optimistic in favor of AMD. in mid-May '06 Dell said they'll sell Opteron 4-socket servers. I think they became available in November. So that's 6 months. However, the chips had been "fully functional" for two years before that. So they must have been working on them for much longer. Besides, customer validation takes months also.
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