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To: Mahmoud Mohammed who wrote (259676)	4/12/2009 6:32:12 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: These Nehalem servers are here now. So are the 45nm direct connect Shanghai servers - and Shanghai is available in 1, 2, 4, or 8 socket systems (since AMD's crossbars work) while Intel is Nehalem is limited to 1 or 2 sockets (since Intel's crossbars don't yet work). And Shanghai is a drop in upgrade for just about any (decent - e.g. AMD based) server sold in the past year and there will be 6 and 12 core drop in upgrades for current Shanghai servers sold. Intel buyers are still stuck with re-building the rack with new boxes to upgrade with Nehalem. And will the Nehalem boxes be dead ends like all the other Intel based servers or will they finally figure out how to mimic AMD's transparent upgrade technology?