David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 3/19/10 wrote:
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>a reader (a@b.c) on 3/18/10 wrote:
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>>>Magny-Cours is 692mm2 of silicon. Westmere is 248mm2 of silicon.
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>>that settles it. all hail intel.
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>heh, i dunno know about that, and I hope you were being a little facetious : )
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actually am a little worried about of lack of effective
competition. otoh, intel earned it fair and square.
good for them.


>It's not clear at all how AMD will price Istanbul and Magny Cours. It seems like
>AMD ought to prefer pushing MC into the 4S server market, where the margins are
>sufficient and the competition less intense. Not to knock Nehalem-EX, but it's still a 45nm product, not a 32nm one.
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well, nehalem ex + ex5 can steamroll pretty much everything
in its path. both intel and ibm got a winner here.