Tony, your repetitive arguments are mostly nonsense.
<Remember who has the infrastructure support,
best FIT rates, RAS, yields and availability
of large quantities of chips practically guaranteed.>
A server manufacturers make a product - servers.
How the heck your "yield and availability of
large quantities" may affect the choice of
CPU? Do you know how good or bad are yields
for 21164, or MIPS, or PA-8200? How large
their quantities are? Does it prevent
server makers from successfully using these CPUs?
As soon as a CPU
manufacturer guarantees parameters and
availability, who cares? In theory it is
better to have a second source, but you
know what happened to this institution
when Intel announced monopoly...
And why would "large quantities" be a
factor in the server market, where a
SINGLE machine supposed to serve many
clients? Unless you want to built a
4-way Xeon into every light bulb to
control the dimmer...
If you mean under "availability" the
continuous supply of certain CPUs
for which the service infrasrtucture
has been established and is profitable
(for a server maker of course),
juggling with processor's lines (as
Intel does) is also not a good argument
for you. Compare: Socket8 PentiumPro ->
Slot1/PII -> Slo2/Xeon...
<infrastructure support> - I am not really
sure you understand what you are talking
about. If you mean the passive hardware,
then the K7 was specifically designed to
reuse all it - connectors, brackets, thermal
plates, retainers, heat sinks, etc.
If you are talking
about chipsets, I don't think the recent
stories with 4way-NX-Xeon combo are very
supportive for your argument. In any case
for a state-of-the-art server people
used to have proprietary solutions for
SMP on x86 processors.
After all, Maxwell was talking primarily
about uniprocessor machines on K7 vs Xeon.
You must be so afraid of K7 to penetrate
your lucrative server market that you are
responding to you own fears! And in a way
pleasurable for you... As far as
I know, AMD did not explicitly announced
their intent to go after server
market...yet:)
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