Where's Penryn/Nehalem for sale now ? Customers will try this chip out on their own applications and I fully expect AMD's server marketshare to double as a result from their trials. Haven't even mentioned virtualization yet where Xeons are poor in comparison. Barcelona is strong where it needs to be strong, HPC, Database, Power Efficiency and Virtualisation. It doesn't matter if it loses Workstation benches by bigger margins because it only has a couple percent of that market anyway ;-). You keep cheering irrelevant benchmarks which bear no relation to the marketshare dynamics between the two products. Also the only thing that's going to be broken about the tri-core is Intel's carefully segmented desktop line. It will outperform both the duals and quads by virtue of high clockspeed per socket power and drive a wedge between the two. You just don't realise the damage it will do yet but you will soon enough ;-).
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