Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
Donnie27 I don't agree with your history lesson.

On servers i7 need to get the power down
No, it's NOT my history lesson at all. It's more like you not knowing computer history. If you think it is merely me fabricating it, prove it? You can't do that of course.

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentium4HTXE/
http://www.intel.com/products/proces...v+list_itanium

Intel used L3 on its 130nm processors long before AMD even thought about using a L3.

Quote Originally Posted by Wiki
The Alpha architecture was sold, along with most parts of DEC, to Compaq in 1998. Compaq, already an Intel customer, decided to phase out Alpha in favor of the forthcoming Intel IA-64 "Itanium" architecture, and sold all Alpha intellectual property to Intel in 2001, effectively "killing" the product. Hewlett-Packard purchased Compaq later that same year, continuing development of the existing product line until 2004, and promising to continue selling Alpha-based systems, largely to the existing customer base, until October 2006 (later extended to April 2007).[2]
As part of the purchase agreement Intel had to promise to not cut AMD off from the EV6 license Dirk got from DEC/Compaq.

http://www.alasir.com/articles/alpha...pha_21264.html

There were 2 system logic sets designed initially for the 21264 processors: DEC Tsunami (21272; also known as Typhoon) and AMD Irongate (AMD-751), though could be many more if to take into account that both 21264 and Athlon utilised almost the same system bus licenced by DEC to AMD.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/sho...cleID=10817401

So yes, disagree with real history all you like. Remain blind if it makes you feel good. I'll at least back up my beliefs with facts instead of misguided feelings for some large corporation like AMD or Intel for that matter.