Mula, In order to appreciate they need to understand what problem these cpu designers are trying to solve. Or what does it take for these CPU's to deliver the goods of improved performance over the conventional IA32 architecture. Is it tpmc,specFP, specInt or something else? Another interesting question would be to ask what kind of computing changes are dictated upon us by internet? We could very well see the computing market very fragmented (segmented) to address individualized needs (e.g. workstation, db servers, front end web servers, etc).
I think it's tpmC, at least right now. The table below has a comparison on some current, or soon to be released medium sized servers. 1,2,4,8 and 10 are Intel based. Obviously this is "somewhat from a Compaq view." I don't know if Dell, HP or IBM have >8 Xeon server solutions.
tpc.org
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