[geeks] Sun to adopt newest Intel Xeon chips for upcoming servers (link)

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Tue, 23 Jan 2007 @ 08:01 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:
> 
>> Mark Benson wrote:
>>> Performance-wise, yeh, Intel are in front at the moment, by a yard- 
>>> arm, but you never know what AMD have up their sleeve.
>> Actually, to look at this a slightly different way:  Intel's
>> performance/watt advantage over AMD is attributable basically to the
>> fact that they have had a lead in smaller process technology, which is a
>>  lead that (by reports) they're about to lose when AMD's new fabs come
>> on line.  Meanwhile, on interconnect technology they've caught up to
>> where AMD was in, say, 2001.
> 
> Actually, no.
> 
> AMD's old HyperTransport is still better than Intel's newest stuff when
> you move past dual CPU systems.

OK, so I was intentionally being a little generous.  :)


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