Quote Originally Posted by Katanai View Post
Hahahaha!

Try multiplying that by 10. See, that's why these systems are unknown to the general public. They are in a totally different league. That's also why I think this comparison to the Opteron is a bit unfair. The only thing they got in common is that they are both CPU's. Any other similarity ends there. Still there is no one stopping AMD to come out with a high end architecture of their own. Yet they don't, the only thing they got is the Opteron, that to be frank, was totally killed, not by Itanium but by Nehalem. We'll see though, they have a chance to make a comeback with these 12 core chips that are soon to be released...
considering that amd still manages to sell opteron chips for a thousand bugs a piece, i wouldnt really say nehalem has killed the opteron
especially since your saying a certain architecture killed a marketing name and series of another company... which doesnt make sense :P

and whether amd will have a come back or not is not a question... their cpu designs are way focussed on the server space, and we all know that bulldozer is a sever chip first and a desktop and mobile chip second... just like nehalem...im sure bulldozer will be a great chip... the thing is just that im sure sandybridge will at least be as much of a great chip as bulldozer...

id really like to know why bulldozer didnt come out in 2009 as planned... that would have been quite something...
amd could have caught up to intel and even surpassed them...