Kevin Krewell
Kevin Krewell
close delayed greater hoped launch months nine provide
It's disappointing that something they hoped would provide a greater kicker couldn't be there and that they delayed the launch for nine months to close to a year.
bit launching longer took
It took a little bit longer for these to launch; they said they would be launching them sooner.
looks
In many ways, it looks like a server on a chip.
apples
It's really not an Apples to Apples comparison, if you will.
cost intel talk
The Intel chipset is much more complex. What they don't talk about is that the cost of the chipset will go up significantly.
good might
You might as well do some good with it.
money produce scheme useful
One is as a money scheme and the other is to produce useful technology.
balance both bunch details higher ibm lots says sounds stripped
IBM says they can balance both and still get these higher speeds, but there's still lots of details yet to be revealed. It sounds great, but you could have stripped down a whole bunch of functionality to get that higher speed, which wouldn't be so great.
companies demand efficient looking pc
There will always be a demand for the super-big and super-fast boxes. But slimmer, and smaller, and more efficient is what the PC companies are looking at right now.
difficult faster market mobile parts segments speeds
They're recognizing that in some market segments like telecom, mobile handsets and handhelds, the parts tuned for faster speeds are too difficult to use and too power-hungry.
lines past
They've done that in the past with their Celeron lines for lower-priced PCs.
architecture balanced catch intel struggling
AMD's architecture was really a well-thought, modern, balanced approach. Intel has to catch up. They're getting there, but they're still struggling to get more performance.
good numbers opposed performance power reasonable
The performance numbers look good to me, and the power consumption is reasonable -- as opposed to unreasonable with many other servers.
cut older order sell
In order to sell the leftover older chips, you have to cut prices.