Quote Originally Posted by zir_blazer View Post
Who was the guy responsible for Socket 939 Opterons 1xx? They were extremely famous and popular here around 2006 because you could get Athlon 64 FX worth bins in a 250 U$D or so Opteron 165, besides that they use Toledo JH-E6 parts with 1 MB Cache L2 per Core while comparable A64X2 were Manchesters BH-E4 with 512 KB Cache L2. The enthusiast market eated those "Server parts".


About the 9 Core issue, the "128 Bits Core that interconnects the 8 64 Bits ones" sounds the 128 Bits IMC and a Crossbar or something.
I can guarantee you that while those were popular with enthusiasts, that was not a net benefit for AMD. And we did not sell nearly as many as you probably think. I have a Fox Vanilla 140 on my bike and so do a lot of the people that I ride with, but that does not mean it is the most popular fork out there. Just real popular with my friends.