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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)

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To: fastpathguru who wrote (215193)	10/27/2006 9:27:40 AM
From: Elmer Phud	Read Replies (1) of 275872

FPG So how much memory bandwidth will this chipset have? How many pins? How much will it cost? Intel hasn't released that info but it's clear that the pincount will be very high, which means expensive. AMD's advantage is not just trouncing "the FSB bottleneck", it scales ALL resources much better and does it at a lower cost. Four Opteron sockets provide 8 DDR2 channels, and communicate over multiple point-to-point links without the need for a honkin' huge chipset. Yes they do and they spread that memory around so it's not local to any CPU and requests to those memory locations must suffer hops and added delays. A failure on the I/O CPU and the whole system is down. Intel's can sustain a failure on any CPU and keep running. AMD's "advantage" is in the classroom where academics can ooo and aaaah about how superior it is. It's so called "lower cost" doesn't translate into better performance per $$$.

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