Comments on: AMD, Intel unwrap their latest server chips

The chipmakers are battling it out in the server world, but with slightly different strengths.

[sharikou]

INTEL design is outdated

INTEL architecture is not scalable, that why INTEL needs 16MB of silicon to have reasonable performance. In contrast, all Opterons need is 1MB.

In some sense, those Xeons at 150 watts are overclocked chips, they can't really sustain the speced speed for long, it has to thermal throttle to prevent silicon meltdown.

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[i_am_still_wade]

Outdated because they haven't changed

The market has changed, and changed in a big way. Gone are the gigahertz races, which Intel is still playing a little. Now, it is multi-cores and energy conservation. Little wonder then you can't pick a flyer for Circuit City without seeing several PC with AMD chips now.

[CompEng]

An academic argument

Maybe a more efficient architecture wouldn't have needed that much cache. But still, Tulsa HAS the cache. :)

[Andrew J Glina]

True

But Intel already know this and are ditching the P4 as fast as they can. AMD on the other had have nothing special comming out for at least two years. With the 64 bit sillyness over now, all AMD have is HyperTransport. Aside from that there is very little separating the AMD64s from the Athlons.

(Incidentally, don't get me wrong and see me as a AMD hater. I am typing this on a Semperon 2600.)