Intel Itanium outsells AMD Opteron

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No need to get angry or combative. I think it's cool that JF posts in this forum. It's always nice to get someone from inside AMD to post. I wish more executives would do that. As far as the price/performance ratio, obviously you have to take into account price vs performance. If performance is more important, then obviously Nehalem will be a better option. But if it isn't, Opteron presents a very compelling argument. Not every server runs at 100% capacity all the time. Most servers are at like 30% most of the time. If that were the case, Nehalem doesn't present much value beyond Opteron.

I'm sorry if it looks like I am angry. No, I'm not angry at all.

Do you really think that servers are even loaded 100% all the time?

Did I say this? potentialy - please pay attention.

Funny, mainstream users don't need good graphics and now servers process data all the time without ever being in a state of idle. Any more shareholder quips?

The first part of your sentence please address someone else, I never said this. For the second part I can say that if you really don't need performance, then again Nehalem servers provides much higher performance/watt value especially when the server spends more time in idle. Until AMD will bring power-gated technology into its processors there is no competition here.