Quote Originally Posted by cky2k6 View Post
Yes, all thats really needed is a "black edition" g34 part, and the mobo makers can take care of the "rest" like putting on consumer trinkets and lollerskate heatsinks. The two markets will never come into contact, and intel was perfectly fine with using 1366 for enthusiast chips as well as xeons. Hell, amd does it as well with opterons using the same socket as a consumer sku just with a server chipset. You have the 12 and 16 core cpus, just connect the dots amd.

It's about $5M to bring any project to market.

The revenue opportunity is significantly under $5M, so you end up with a loss.