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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (90445)1/30/2000 12:46:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1572369
 
Jim, assuming the rumors are true, AMD's delay of 2-way multiprocessing really does not bode well for the company. If AMD wants to penetrate into the server market, they have to work their way from 2-way on up in order to build up infrastructure and reputation. Why? Because 2-way and 4-way systems are where the volumes are, at least for servers and high-end workstations.

Sure, AMD can still rely on HotRail's 8-way chipset, but without first establishing the Athlon 2-way platform, the 8-way platform can quickly collapse because of low volumes and AMD's lack of experience in that area. (No way can they simply defeature an 8-way chipset and call it 2-way. That's just too expensive.)

Of course, all this assumes that Ace's Hardware is correct about the 2-way delay. And their track record of accuracy is on the same level as that of The Register (although Ace's is more well-behaved than the yellow-bellies in the UK).

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