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To: ptanner who wrote (87411)	8/21/2002 9:04:07 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Patrick, There is an interesting slide, page 47 of the presentation, of an asymmetric dual processor desktop. It has one Opteron with 2 HT links used, one for I/O, one to connect to the other CPU. The second processor is just a single HT link Clawhammer. They call the processors foreground and background. Joe

To: ptanner who wrote (87411)	8/21/2002 10:18:06 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Another interesting tidbit of information is on potential blade server, slide 58: hypertransport.org AMD is participating in major OEM Blade efforts Establishing an “Open Standard” based on cPCI and HyperTransport Hypertransport based backplane standard for blade servers would mean a huge deal for AMD and Hypertransport Consortium. HT has a much greater bandwidth, and rather than being shared, HT based backplane could use a switch, providing huge increase in potential for communication between the individual blades compared to cPCI. As far as I know, though, there is no standard for any kind of connection or a backplane standard, so it will take considerable amount of time before something like this can materialize. Also, I am not sure if it is possible for HT based server backplane to ever materialize, since Intel would do everything possible to sabotage it. Many “Value” issues Power - AMD will offer lower power Hammer It's encouraging that AMD plans on using Hammer in blades. Right now, they are mostly using low power Piiis intended for notebooks. It would be great news if Hammer was able to come within this kind of power budget. I wonder if this will be with .13u or .09u based Hammers. Joe