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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (260300)	5/15/2009 7:48:14 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"Got any proof of that?" Not directly. But there is no reason to suspect Opteron. The deal happened in 2005. Dual core was out and that cemented AMD's lead in servers. New to the scene were Turions and AMD was making a push for the commercial desktop market. A million server CPUs is a fair fraction of the server market in any given quarter back then. I doesn't make sense that they would try to corner the server market with free processors. The commercial desktop and the notebook markets were different. A million processors would be ideal for getting a toehold in either of those markets. You just have to drop the assumption that AMD is staffed with morons. Something you have to otherwise assume.