Comments on: It started with a single core

By: Phil Hughes

Phil Hughes — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:16:54 +0000

thanks Daniel. Speaking of memory, you should check out this site — http://solori.wordpress.com — author has done some great platform cost comparisons.

By: Theo Valich

Theo Valich — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:04:34 +0000

RE:Danieljohnson – Intel Nehalem-EP is sexa-core? Since when? As far as I know, Nehalem-EP is a quad-core design, will be followed by a 32nm sexa-core refresh called Westmere and a native octo-core design.

Going back to the launch, it Is interested that Phil didn’t touch pressures that Intel made on partners not to show up in New York. I was there and I remember seeing those e-mails that Chipzilla sent out to Taiwanese partners forcing a hand at them. I won’t name which companies were banned from appearing on the event, but the representatives were there and spoke interesting things.
It was a given that AMD will succeed, since you already had sealed the deal with several HPC machines in well respected companies, such as Mercedes Benz part of then DaimlerChrysler and Ferrari S.p.A. All in given time, but AMD was on target with the architecture. AMD learned on DEC Alpha, Intel didn’t until recently.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:03:54 +0000

Hello Hughes, sorry this comment is not related to your blog post. I’m glad that AMD is always care to their existing customers like giving discounts for purchases new microprocessor for server. If AMD will introduces new microprocessor with new socket and core logic, I want AMD will give a free motherboard for every purchase CPU to their existing customers if their customers want to upgrade their server. This is a new innovation customer care program.

By: Danieljohnson

Danieljohnson — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:54:38 +0000

With Intel’s six core Nehalem architecture fast capturing the market, it was necessary for AMD to come up with something quickly. And finally came up with the release of Istanbul, the Opteron series from AMD features six cores and a faster HyperTransport interconnect

So what does AMD have going for it right now with Istanbul:

Istanbul provides the best value for customers who already own a Shanghai or Barcelona based server. In-socket replacement, very low downtime for upgrades and better performance with just a change of CPU.

DDR2 memory – DDR2 memory is now priced very competitively against DDR3. This brings down the overall cost of the system. Istanbul will use DDR2 instead of the more costly DDR3 memory.