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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 200.98+1.4%3:59 PM EST

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To: Goutam who wrote (5998)8/22/2000 3:59:12 AM
From: Pravin KamdarRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Goutama,

Remember when HP used the 500 Kbyte version of the Pentium II Xeon instead of the 1 meg version (maybe it was 1 Meg versus 2 Meg) in their multiprocessor servers since they were a lot cheaper and they claimed that their was not a noticeable performance difference? Well, it looks like Intel, the monopolist, has found a way to force people to pay for higher priced versions if they want to use more than two processors in a server:

yahoo.cnet.com

In addition, the 1-GHz chips can be used in two-processor systems.
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More expensive Xeons come with as much as 2MB of cache and can be used in four-processor configurations.


They can force people to use the more expensive versions, since their is no competition. I look forward to the day that AMD remedies this situation. As Jerry says, OEM's enlightened self interest will cause them to support AMD -- so they won't have to continually be shafted by Intel when ever they can get away with it.

Pravin.
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