"IBM, AMD To Deepen Opteron Ties"

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IBM and Advanced Micro Devices are expected to announce an alliance that will lead to mainstream IBM servers based on the Opteron processor, CNET News.com has learned. It's a further boost to chipmaker AMD and a new blow to rival Intel's server business.

Opteron's successes haven't gone unnoticed at Big Blue. Bill Zeitler, head of IBM's server group, said in April that HP and Sun gained at IBM's expense because of their Opteron products. AMD-based products, including IBM's own blades, generate more revenue because their higher performance means customers buy them with more memory and other add-ons, Zeitler said.

...Intel has suffered market share losses to AMD because of Opteron (though its more-powerful Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" chips are now coming to market). And it has suffered financially: Its Digital Enterprise Group, which sells server chips, saw its revenue decline 23 percent from $6 billion in the second quarter of 2005 to $4.6 billion in the second quarter of 2006.

...Although Intel has improved performance with its dual-processor Xeon 5100 models, its forthcoming "Tulsa" chip for four-processor machines is still based on the power-hungry and discredited NetBurst lineage.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6096706.html

 

[YO_KID37]

IBM and Advanced Micro Devices are expected to announce an alliance that will lead to mainstream IBM servers based on the Opteron processor, CNET News.com has learned. It's a further boost to chipmaker AMD and a new blow to rival Intel's server business.

Opteron's successes haven't gone unnoticed at Big Blue. Bill Zeitler, head of IBM's server group, said in April that HP and Sun gained at IBM's expense because of their Opteron products. AMD-based products, including IBM's own blades, generate more revenue because their higher performance means customers buy them with more memory and other add-ons, Zeitler said.

...Intel has suffered market share losses to AMD because of Opteron (though its more-powerful Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" chips are now coming to market). And it has suffered financially: Its Digital Enterprise Group, which sells server chips, saw its revenue decline 23 percent from $6 billion in the second quarter of 2005 to $4.6 billion in the second quarter of 2006.

...Although Intel has improved performance with its dual-processor Xeon 5100 models, its forthcoming "Tulsa" chip for four-processor machines is still based on the power-hungry and discredited NetBurst lineage.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6096706.html

Like my Physics Teacher said. "Grapee!"

 

[Action_Man]

Wheres the 8) ?

(though its more-powerful Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" chips are now coming to market).

Owned.

 

[Ragnarok]

IBM and Advanced Micro Devices are expected to announce an alliance that will lead to mainstream IBM servers based on the Opteron processor, CNET News.com has learned. It's a further boost to chipmaker AMD and a new blow to rival Intel's server business.

Opteron's successes haven't gone unnoticed at Big Blue. Bill Zeitler, head of IBM's server group, said in April that HP and Sun gained at IBM's expense because of their Opteron products. AMD-based products, including IBM's own blades, generate more revenue because their higher performance means customers buy them with more memory and other add-ons, Zeitler said.

...Intel has suffered market share losses to AMD because of Opteron (though its more-powerful Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" chips are now coming to market). And it has suffered financially: Its Digital Enterprise Group, which sells server chips, saw its revenue decline 23 percent from $6 billion in the second quarter of 2005 to $4.6 billion in the second quarter of 2006.

...Although Intel has improved performance with its dual-processor Xeon 5100 models, its forthcoming "Tulsa" chip for four-processor machines is still based on the power-hungry and discredited NetBurst lineage.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6096706.html

Tulsa will be based on netburst...christ! I thought we had seen the last of that red headed step child that is netburst.

Oh well.