They clearly are at the tail end of what has been a pretty painful period for Intel. They had to tear up their road map and scramble to find new products to drop into the places where the old products were going to appear.
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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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He had a pretty good relationship with Dirk Meyer AMD's number two executive. 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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If someone came up with a 64-bit desktop application, then AMD would have an advantage, ... As soon as the application base on PCs demands more than 4GB to run any particular application, that's when you will start to see pressure on the desktop for 64-bit processors. But the average use for a Windows 98 configuration is just south of 128MB, so we still have several years, as that demand tends to crawl forward at around 50 to 100 percent a year.
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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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Tualatin is a dynamite server chip. One of the reasons (Intel) decided not to go forward with the Foster-based Xeon chip was because Tualatin, with its larger cache, had better performance in server environments.
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