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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (267918)	1/10/2006 9:23:42 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576360

"Rumor has it Dell is going to start using AMD chips........yeah, I know, I know.....but its different this time....for sure, really, well maybe." Personally, I won't beiieve it until I can order a system, have it shipped here, opened the box and verified it with my own eyes... Having said that, the odds are higher than any time in the past. Especially in the 4-32 socket server market, Opteron is by far and away the better performance choice, especially when power consumption is factored in. And Mickey D did say that AMD was a distinct possibility... Much more important, though is whether or not Google standardizes on Opterons. For them it makes sense for power consumption reason. Given that Bechtolsheim provided the original funding for Google and Sun bought his company for their Opteron designs, there is a good chance of that. And Google is rumored to be working on computer centers in a box where they take hundreds of rack mount servers and stuff them in a 40 foot shipping container so they can be trucked out to site and plugged in. And Google is growing at such a rate that they will need several hundred of these things over the next 5 years.