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To: Crossy who wrote (40560)	11/1/1998 3:17:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) of 1576785

Re: "You may be right. (I don't know whether I should trust You more or TOM/ANAND) but the fact remains the same. INTC current presence in the high-.end server market is rather weak. " He is right. tpc.org You might like to have a look at this website. It has lots of benchmarks for SMP systems including the best price/performance. This list has the top 10. It's not supposed to be an Intel only rating, it's just that Intel captures 10 out of the top 10 spots. Nobody else is even close. tpc.org The top rated system, a Compaq Proliant sells for $384,000. It has 4 Xeon processors. At $2500 a piece, the Xeon hardly has any affect on system cost. Even if Intel charged $5000 for a Xeon it would still have the best price/performance in the industry by a wide margin. The top rated system for performance is an 8-way Alpha at $14 million giving it about 5x the performance of an Intel system for about 23x the price. Where do you think the future lies? EP

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