Comments on: The Sincerest Form of Flattery

By: DP

DP — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:55 +0000

I like interview style!

By: Waywotaft

Waywotaft — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:36:16 +0000

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By: heseWenunny

heseWenunny — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:29:03 +0000

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By: Nigel Dessau

Nigel Dessau — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:56:22 +0000

Lozil – thanks but what does ‘better products’ mean. Better on what metric? Benchmarks? Experience for user? Using my HP dv2 – that’s a great product – happens to have AMD stuff into it but it really is so much more. well done to HP.

By: Lozil

Lozil — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:58:39 +0000

Nice Self Interview. Would just like to see AMD come out with better products for Everyone.

By: Krish

Krish — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:31:17 +0000

I like the optimism sounded in your voice, But you need a leap frog performance in bulldozer to beat Intel.
Now AMD need to push the OEM’s(DELL, HP) to sell phenom II based systems in their product lineup so that you can grab CLIENT/system market share from Intel. This will help to improve the balance sheet till bulldozer rolls out.
Phenom II (X3/X4) benchmarks are good compared to Intel i7/core2duo series. So I think if your marketing team make a right move, then you can gain market share from Intel but that will not happen unless DELL/HP push your phenom II base systems.
If you want push DELL, I may suggest few marketing gimmicks .
some third part vendor/sytem builder (CyberPC .. etc) should come to the media and say that , they are gaining market share due to Phenom II processor, because OEMs dont have Phenom II x3 based sytems in their lineup, similarly some big corporate customer (buying from DELL) should go this 3rd party vendors to buy those Phenom II systems and this should be in top sites.
CNBC team or Investors should raise a question in dell conference call in such way they will lose market share , if they dont adopt Phenom II base systems on upcoming Windows 7 platform, that is optimised for Phenom II /ATI platforms.
Get the DELL marketing manager browsing patten and publish all this information in those sites. for example if he read tomshardware or money.cnn everyday , put these topics in those sites.

Like you guys, I also want your team to win the battle. I see, you are winning and you will win.

These are my humble opinions

Regards,
Krish – bkrishnamoorthy@gmail.com

By: Cliff Forster

Cliff Forster — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:58:31 +0000

I especialy like the “oh so flattering ― overhaul of their server architecture”

Intel finaly gets around to killing the front side bus and they act like it was thier stroke of brilliance all along…

By: shari

shari — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:03:37 +0000

AMD dominates the Java server performance hill

This Shanghai Quad Core Opteron server from HP scores 1,181,782. The best Intel Nahelem based Xeon X5570 scores about 542,793, less than 50% of AMD.

Core i7 has shown some good IPC numbers, but it is no big iron like Opteron, which scales to 8P 32 core. Intel engineers in Israel are stilling banging their heads to reverse cache coherent HT… This again shows that Intel is a desktop company which only knows how to do 2P, while AMD’s Opteron is a server chip designed by server people.

It’s rumored that AMD will yank Intel’s AMD64 and Direct Connect licenses. As you know, Intel’s Quickpath is a copy of AMD’s HyperTransport, and EM64T is a copy of AMD64…

By: Danieö

Danieö — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:05:13 +0000

This was interesting reading for sure. Bulldozer = Orochi, right?

By: Audiguyy

Audiguyy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:32:54 +0000

Nigel,
Great blog. I appreciate that you AMD guys are being open and putting yourselves out there in the community! AMD has obviously decided to “Change the Game” in terms of its communication as well as its technology!
Congrats!

Theo – Shanghai was a pretty good piece of engineering according to the reviews! Not bad after clearly leading the semi market for close to 6 years in servers!

By: ALYS

ALYS — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:41:53 +0000

You are very creative and a great interviewer…I love reading these blog posts Keep posting more…

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:28:59 +0000

Hi Nigel,

nice article. However, there are several things missing – AMD Opteron came out in 2003 and changed the world. That’s true – AMD was nowhere in enterprise space and it became a leader overnight. But what exactly AMD did after that architecture?

Secondly, neither AMD nor Intel invented IMC, if we are really going to call spade a spade. Just like MSFT and AAPL took family jewlery from Xerox PARC, AMD/INTC took the best from Alpha CPU architecture, that featured lovely 8-channel IMC using 16-bit Rambus memory (anybody remembers these guys? they used to innovate instead of inventing lawsuits). Still have that CPU somewhere…. board went the way of dodo birds, unfortunately.

Best of luck with Istanbul and Magny Cours… even though, interesting naming convention. Istanbul is a great racetrack, but your d-die 12-core baby is called upon one boring track in the middle of nowhere. Pardon, France. Why not Suzuka, since its double eight figure mostly fit the dual die convention. Ah well…

By: DennisR

DennisR — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:49:00 +0000

I must say Nigel you are an amazing interviewer…:)

a very nice little read, I look forward to more

By: JD

JD — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:37:36 +0000

Very well put. It’s nice to see you calling a spade a spade. Pretty entertaining “interview” you had there as well.

I love reading these blog posts, keep them coming!