Carrie
04-20-2005, 11:44 PM
The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/amd_dualcore_opteron/)
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Published Thursday 21st April 2005 04:02 GMT
Two years ago, AMD had everything to prove. It had a brand new server chip prepared for a market smothered by its main rival. It had IBM on its side with one Opteron-based server, but that was its only big server partner. It had a funky new 64-bit design that Intel deemed silly and before its time. The only thing AMD had a lot of were doubts.
Today, however, AMD looks pretty damn smart and certain. It has bested the world's largest, strongest chip company.
AMD has started selling a dual-core version of Opteron ahead of its original schedule. HP, Sun Microsystems and IBM have all greeted this release with new systems based on the processor. The only major server vendor not in the AMD camp - Dell - looks like a technology laggard. It and any other Intel-only vendors out there won't have a dual-core x86 server processor until next year.
"We've seen our competition basically fumble, and they are trying to pick up the ball," Ben Williams, a vice president at AMD, told The Register.
And true enough Intel has fumbled in every category except the one that counts most - sales. Intel has recently matched AMD with x86-64-bit chips across its server line and enjoys far more server processor sales than its smaller rival. Intel has every server maker on its side, while AMD is fighting to win over Dell.
Full story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/amd_dualcore_opteron/)
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Published Thursday 21st April 2005 04:02 GMT
Two years ago, AMD had everything to prove. It had a brand new server chip prepared for a market smothered by its main rival. It had IBM on its side with one Opteron-based server, but that was its only big server partner. It had a funky new 64-bit design that Intel deemed silly and before its time. The only thing AMD had a lot of were doubts.
Today, however, AMD looks pretty damn smart and certain. It has bested the world's largest, strongest chip company.
AMD has started selling a dual-core version of Opteron ahead of its original schedule. HP, Sun Microsystems and IBM have all greeted this release with new systems based on the processor. The only major server vendor not in the AMD camp - Dell - looks like a technology laggard. It and any other Intel-only vendors out there won't have a dual-core x86 server processor until next year.
"We've seen our competition basically fumble, and they are trying to pick up the ball," Ben Williams, a vice president at AMD, told The Register.
And true enough Intel has fumbled in every category except the one that counts most - sales. Intel has recently matched AMD with x86-64-bit chips across its server line and enjoys far more server processor sales than its smaller rival. Intel has every server maker on its side, while AMD is fighting to win over Dell.
Full story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/amd_dualcore_opteron/)