Replies to post #21150 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[ChrisC_R]

This is the Newcastle, right? News is spreading:

http://qw2003.quicken.com/investments/news/cnet/?p=AMD&ntlink=http://quicken.com.com/2100-1006_3...

Advanced Micro Devices has quietly trotted out a version of its Athlon 64 chip that provides a little less performance than earlier models but only costs about half as much.

The new Athlon 64 3000+ runs at 2GHz, the same as the existing Athlon 64 3200+, but it only comes with a 512KB secondary cache, according to an AMD spokesman. The 3200+ features a 1MB cache. A cache is a pool of memory integrated into the processor for rapid data access. In general, large caches lead to better performance.

AMD, however, prices the Athlon 64 3000+ at $218 in quantities of 1,000 while the 3200+ sells for $418. At AMD, the new chip is known as the "A-Rod," a reference to baseball player Alex Rodriguez. The chip was released earlier this week.......

[sgolds]

Hi, Milo, nice to hear from you! Welcome to iHub, I think you will find the level of discourse here higher than RB. (I hardly have anyone on my ignore list. :)

I'm not sure of the juxtaposition of that URL in your message - you don't think that has something to do with me, do you? I do, however, subscribe to the optimistic tone expressed there that Opteron should eat into Xeon marketshare.

In fact, with AMD's new priorities (Servers, then laptops, last desktop), AMD has the manufacturing capacity to threaten quite a bit of Xeon market share. 18 or 20% may not be enough to make a dent in desktops, but focussed on servers? That is a whole different ballgame!