Kevin Krewell
Kevin Krewell
architecture balanced catch intel struggling
AMD's architecture was really a well-thought, modern, balanced approach. Intel has to catch up. They're getting there, but they're still struggling to get more performance.
clock driven due extra increases increasing last offer performance power slower
Just increasing clock frequency, which has driven much of the performance increases over the last decade, has become unattractive due to the extra power requirements. Slower clocked dual-core processors can still offer performance increases with multi-threaded applications.
designs game road
Most designs take years. But it was very important for them to get back in the game and have a road map.
total win
The 1-GHz was a total win for AMD.
good numbers opposed performance power reasonable
The performance numbers look good to me, and the power consumption is reasonable -- as opposed to unreasonable with many other servers.
advantage intel later performance start tries year
Fundamentally, we think AMD will have the performance advantage through most of this year. But later in the year and into 2007 it will start to get interesting as Intel tries to go head-to-head with AMD again.
positively sell
If you absolutely, positively need a dual-core Xeon today, they'll sell it to you. But it won't be cheap.
balance both bunch details higher ibm lots says sounds stripped
IBM says they can balance both and still get these higher speeds, but there's still lots of details yet to be revealed. It sounds great, but you could have stripped down a whole bunch of functionality to get that higher speed, which wouldn't be so great.
money produce scheme useful
One is as a money scheme and the other is to produce useful technology.
lines past
They've done that in the past with their Celeron lines for lower-priced PCs.
companies demand efficient looking pc
There will always be a demand for the super-big and super-fast boxes. But slimmer, and smaller, and more efficient is what the PC companies are looking at right now.
details efficient emphasis extreme intel seen swinging
Intel's philosophical emphasis is swinging from one extreme to the other. We haven't seen many details yet, but it may be even more efficient than the AMD chips, and Intel has been hinting at a lot of performance.
cut older order sell
In order to sell the leftover older chips, you have to cut prices.
looks
In many ways, it looks like a server on a chip.