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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (152188)	12/12/2001 10:22:57 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

"The server market that we were talking about - that of the large multiprocessor SMP systems, is a market that AMD has no product for - at least until Sledgehammer." Yes. "Since enterprise servers sell for hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars already, the difference between a $500 CPU and a $4000 means little to the difference in cost for a given system." But much of the actual cost is tied up in things like the memory subsystems, switching fabrics for NUMA systems and the low volume engineering to create those things. Look at Sun's Starfire, for example. The high speed crossbar switches used to create the NUMA topology are very expensive. SledgeHammer with a HT switch can do the same thing for a fraction of the cost, and have lower latencies to boot.