What to expect in the upcoming year for server x86's

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Here's some Inquirer speculation on what to expect in 2005 for x86
server processors.

AMD:
-should take between 25-30% of the x86 market
-likely won't bother to adopt DDR2 on servers until FB-DIMMs are ready
-possibly going to Socket 1207 by end of the 2005

Intel:
-Might come up with its very first ever non-shared bus starting with the
Blackford processor, which it'll call Dual-Independent Bus architecture
(DIB). It'll be similar in concept to the Alpha EV6 bus that AMD used to
use in the old Athlon MP chips
-it will try to reduce power consumption by 20%


AMD holds aces for server market in 2005
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20437

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RusH wrote:
> Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@ezrs.com> wrote :
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>>-should take between 25-30% of the x86 market
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> nope

What's your feeling then?

>>-likely won't bother to adopt DDR2 on servers until FB-DIMMs are
>>ready
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> good
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>>-possibly going to Socket 1207 by end of the 2005
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> may be, but I want dual cores !!!

That's Q2/05.

>>Intel:
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> whatever..

What you didn't find Intel's Dual Independent Bus architecture an
interesting development?

Yousuf Khan