Kevin Krewell
Kevin Krewell
total win
The 1-GHz was a total win for AMD.
money produce scheme useful
One is as a money scheme and the other is to produce useful technology.
clock driven due extra increases increasing last offer performance power slower
Just increasing clock frequency, which has driven much of the performance increases over the last decade, has become unattractive due to the extra power requirements. Slower clocked dual-core processors can still offer performance increases with multi-threaded applications.
advantage intel later performance start tries year
Fundamentally, we think AMD will have the performance advantage through most of this year. But later in the year and into 2007 it will start to get interesting as Intel tries to go head-to-head with AMD again.
positively sell
If you absolutely, positively need a dual-core Xeon today, they'll sell it to you. But it won't be cheap.
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.
designs game road
Most designs take years. But it was very important for them to get back in the game and have a road map.
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 industry patents reveal standards
How can the industry come up with standards if companies don't reveal their patents in committee?
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.
details efficient emphasis extreme intel seen swinging
Intel's philosophical emphasis is swinging from one extreme to the other. We haven't seen many details yet, but it may be even more efficient than the AMD chips, and Intel has been hinting at a lot of performance.
cut older order sell
In order to sell the leftover older chips, you have to cut prices.