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To: Rink who wrote (211212)	9/20/2006 6:02:37 AM
From: Rink	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

SGI on Woodcrest vs Opteron "When it comes to x86 chips, Advanced Micro Devices has provided new competition to Intel. But McKenna said Intel has the winning processor in that market today with its new "Woodcrest" Xeon chips. "We looked at that very strongly in making our decision on our Xeon 'Woodcrest' cluster solution. Clearly AMD has done an excellent job with the Opteron, but that's looking in the rearview mirror," McKenna said. "Intel's solution going forward was compelling and provided better price performance, thermal performance, and die size versus Opteron," and now speed tests put Xeon in the lead as well, he said." news.com.com (via chipguy/ihub) Intel has the winning processor in the market 'today'? 'was' compelling? 'provided' better price performance? Speed tests (currently) put it ahead? Sounds like a winner! I say they can leverage their existing technology better with Woodcrest. And they couldn't choose Opteron because of the headstart that Cray has. This combination made it very compelling to continue with Intel. Regards, Rink