Replies to post #119911 on Intel Corp (INTC)

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This week, AMD will announce details of its server-chip strategy. Feldman thinks its chips, which will ship in 2014, will be very competitive with Intel's next server processor, code-named Avoton, which will use the same technology that the Atom does for phones and tablets. Yes, Intel has learned the lesson Feldman taught it. "Whether Avoton will close the gap with AMD is hard to say right now," comments Linley Gwennap, whose Linley Group evaluates microprocessors. "Intel really hasn't given sufficient details to make that conclusion."

I see a lot of ego here. This guy wants to take credit for "helping" (no... "teaching") Intel to embrace the philosophy of an Atom based micro-servers - and at the same time he has the gall to say AMD's chips will be better suited - and then finally concludes by conceding that he no idea what Avoton really is. What kind of an ego is required to take credit for an Intel invention based on a sales-pitch discussion he once had with one of their reps?

As for AMD's big play, their current Kabini derivative has half the cores, a process generation behind, and none of the power management or server features that makes Avoton well suited for these class of machines. But of course he's willing to throw his own self-proclaimed brain child under the bus to pump the warmed over netbook chip of his new employer - which is tacitly being replaced the next year by "ARM Magic"(TM) A57 cores.

The only thing that is lacking in "sufficient detail" is AMD's roadmap strategy. If their x86 server parts were any good, then they would be going with an 8-core Beema for their 2014 server part, and not something from ARM's design house, which based on A15's power-performance, is likely to be significantly behind Avoton.

I just can't wait to see the last of these irrational hopes and dreams from the ARM camp crushed by the heavy weight of reality.