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To: dougSF30 who wrote (218559)	12/2/2006 6:11:18 AM
From: Rink	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

re: The Opteron 8000 series, which go into four-socket and larger servers, will get the Barcelonas first, followed by the two-socket Opteron 2000 series, and then later in 2007, the single-socket Opteron 1000 series and, presumably, the Athlon 64 FX and Althon 64 X4. "We really think that the sweet spot for Barcelona is four-socket machines, since these boxes have the kinds of workloads that can take the best advantage of threads and cores" says Fruehe. Four socket is where it will benefit the most because that's where HTT3 improves avg latency and bandwidth the most. Also a lot of current 4 socket systems will be upgraded by switching processors. So there will be more cpu sales than are sold with new 4S systems. I agree that launching it this will allows AMD to increase yields of this 286mm2 die before higher volume production. QC FX is I think due in Q3 (I think we had an article a while back that mentioned this specifically). So the launches might actually be pretty close together. 8000, 2000, 1000 and QC FX may be launched in the timeframe of say 4 months. Regards, Rink BTW, tx Doug for taking the tone out.

To: dougSF30 who wrote (218559)	12/2/2006 7:21:05 AM
From: mas_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

You can maintain it all you want it does not make it true. Yeah let's intro our new quad at $500 so doug can beat his chest about how many we can make ... not. K8L, like K8, is primarily a server chip and will show what it can do best at 4 and 8 socket. It's called marketing. It's quite funny as you seem to think the opposite about AMD's 65nm, that it should be introed at the high end and not at the low end skus and when AMD say that it's because they want to ramp it up quickly you call them liars and yet you give the same reason yourself ! On the subject of courtesy you would be well advised to take your own advice. How much money did AMD and their execs make you ? Did they get incompetent overnight ? Yet you are just not giving them any slack, appreciation or benefit of the doubt and calling them barefaced liars when they make reasonable logical statements. It reflects very badly on your character when you demonstrate such behaviour. I give even complete strangers the benefit of the doubt yet you are not extending that basic courtesy to those who have already proven themselves and enriched you already, sheesh !