<It may be inconcievable with Intel CPU's but not AMD's.>
Huh? Like I said before, anyone can make a "server" with a 486 and a network card. The servers I'm talking about are enterprise servers, not the "thin servers" that Intel is talking about. Thin servers can be created with any processor, from Pentium II to Celeron to even K6.
<In fact more and more SOHO market will be an important market and a lot of work is going on low cost home networking via regular phone extensions as well etc.>
Guess who's pushing this technology? That's right, Intel! It's too bad this kind of home networking via phone jacks wasn't available back in my college days when my roommates and I were duking it out in Command & Conquer.
It's interesting how Intel's efforts to expand the Intel (x86) architecture also benefits AMD indirectly, since the benefits can be realized with either Intel or AMD products. But of course, this is part of the brand-name strategy that Intel is pursuing that is sorely lacking in the AMD camp due to lack of funds.
<A low cost server with perhaps a PC in every room may be the norm in a few years. We have 3 PC's in our house and will be adding a fourth pretty soon. Once HDTV decoders become available for PC, I will probably have a fifth in my living room as well.>
I too can imagine my household having several computers networked together, along with the VCR, HDTV, stereo, phone, answering machine, and even the rice cooker. ;-) I especially hear you on the HDTV part.
But of course, this has nothing to do with enterprise servers, i.e. those which have to handle huge loads of transactions, and which require huge amounts of RAM, processing power, disk space, and cabinet space. This is the current space of the Xeon, and the current high-end target of the K7.
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