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To: combjelly who wrote (160765)3/1/2002 12:13:39 AM
From: wanna_bmw  Respond to of 186894
 
Combjelly, Re: "But there is as much reason to believe that AMD can do it to some small multiple of 4 processors (with a reasonable switch), as there is to believe they can't."

There's no question that they "can" do it. The question is "when?". Consider how long it took them to get dual processors functioning, and that was when they had the luxury of designing a dual ported system from a single point of access. Now, their topology includes forwarding coherent requests to different nodes, which is sure to introduce many corner-cases in validation as the number of CPUs increases past one.

wbmw



To: combjelly who wrote (160765)3/1/2002 2:32:55 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Combjelly, <And that is the biggest threat to Intel.>

Not really. The biggest threat to Intel, IMO, is AMD's potential to drop the margins in 2-way servers, where at least the economies of scale still apply.

Tenchusatsu


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