Quote Originally Posted by duploxxx View Post
are you actually active in the server world? Nehalem didn't destroy the opteron at all, yes Intel gained some market share against opteron due to the performance lack in some SW parts previous xeon versions had and nehalem no longer, but the response with istanbul stagered that again in many areas. Lots of sales on AMD is now waiting for the new platform launch, which Intel is quite affraid off, since they are changing roadmaps all the time with gainestown to counter that launch. Don't forget AMD doubled the amount cores and 4 channel ddr3 MC in a 2s box that is for example a lot of virtualization performance.

Not everyone buys the top bin you know, and AMD systems are way cheaper with OEM discount then Intel.
Yes actually I am and like I've said Nehalem is selling like crazy. It's a very successful architecture. And the part with AMD systems being way cheaper is more of a myth than anything. The platform as a whole is a bit cheaper in most cases but the difference is not as big as you make it out to be. I don't know where you have the info from that AMD is making lots of sales right now. As for virtualization performance, until AMD implements an analogue to Hyper-threading they don't got anything going for them. Doubling the amount of cores is not really the best solution as it also almost doubles the costs. We'll have to wait and see, 12 core CPU's sound good. If they manage to take the next step and manage to implement a form of Hyper-threading technology to the next generation, like they are talking now, those CPUs should be monsters. Don't get me wrong though, I got absolutely nothing against AMD. The Opteron was a revolutionary CPU and it actually sold less than it should have. I'm just saying it how it is at the moment...

Anyway enough thread derailing, this is about Itanium not Nehalem...