Nathan Brookwood
Nathan Brookwood
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He had a pretty good relationship with Dirk Meyer (AMD's No. 2 exec). It is hard to say who precisely was behind the (Athlon 64) development, but Fred certainly was a big contributor. Most of the technology changes that AMD has made while he was there turned out to be good ones.
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He certainly goes for unconventional, creative approaches, like licensing Sun's software based on the number of employees that a customer had. So in that regard, I'm optimistic.
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Henceforth, those who need more performance must exploit parallelism -- multiple processors, often on a single silicon die. AMD is winning the dual-core server race.
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What I'm hearing today is that AMD's performance advantage is going to narrow in the next six months, or AMD may even lose its performance advantage. That doesn't necessarily mean they're going to lose market share.
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Napa will make Intel a more capable competitor against AMD's products. AMD is having a modicum of success in mobile.
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Clearly this is a prerequisite for AMD to have any success in the entry-level server market. If you look at that particular segment, although Linux is gaining some momentum, the vast preponderance of servers are running with Windows.
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CMOS allows high-density chips the size of a postage stamp to be cooled without exotic techniques. Without low-power CMOS technology, microprocessors would run so hot that they would literally melt.
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But here the performance per watt is dramatically better than the industry standard and that to me is an adequate motivation to consider Sun. The cores themselves may not be very elegant, but what's relevant here is whether they'll do the job companies need them to do. From what I've seen Sun plans to deliver that.
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After the second half of the year, the race between them to consume less power will get a lot closer.
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If you're asking 'How do I get more done with the same amount of electrical power?' this is one of the few solutions out there. And I think there are plenty of companies in this bind that will see this as manna from heaven.
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Intel wants to get them out in a hurry. I would assume they have a longer-term plan, probably around 45-nanometer technology, to provide a more comprehensively designed quad-core.
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Intel seems to have kicked the megahertz habit. It's probably music to Steve Jobs' ears.
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Intel is trailing both in terms of basic performance and performance per watt. I think by the end of the year, they can be at near parity with AMD.
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Intel has never really had to deal with a competitor in the x86 space that had its act together. But how much of the problem is due to AMD's competitiveness, and how much is due to internal factors like chipsets and inventories?