Replies to post #23000 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

Klaus,

Until... Large cache 90nm Xeons could probably be the next opportunity to ride an EE-attack to regain the DT-Perfomance Crown.

Except, the roadmaps I have seen don't have any large cache (processors with L3) Prescotts at all. Not until Tejas core.

This hole will show up mainly in the server market. The Inquirere reports that Nocona slipped to H2:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13608

And Nocona is only Prescott in Xeon socket. No L3. The only thing Intel has is the old Northwood / Gallatin core, which they can still push it to more cache and clock speed, and risk reliability, sacrifice yields etc. It looks like Intel has to do both to try to hang on to the server market share. Doing anything less would open the floodgates to Opteron even more.

Joe