Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: Andrew Maizels (andrew.maizels.delete@this.gmail.com), December 21, 2011 11:30 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Mark Pillsbury (no_spam@gmail.com) on 12/14/11 wrote:
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>Here's my opinion of what AMD should do:
>5. Price the Opteron 6000 series at the same price per socket as the Opteron 4000
>series to encourage more adoption of high socket count systems and high core count
>software optimized for AMD's microarchitecture.
They've pretty much done this with the 6200 chips. A 2.4GHz 12-core four-socket CPU costs $400. The top (8-core) 4200 CPU is over $300.
If your software is heavily multi-threaded, that's amazing value. We just ordered five 48-core Opteron servers to add to our existing five 32-core servers.
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>Here's my opinion of what AMD should do:
>5. Price the Opteron 6000 series at the same price per socket as the Opteron 4000
>series to encourage more adoption of high socket count systems and high core count
>software optimized for AMD's microarchitecture.
They've pretty much done this with the 6200 chips. A 2.4GHz 12-core four-socket CPU costs $400. The top (8-core) 4200 CPU is over $300.
If your software is heavily multi-threaded, that's amazing value. We just ordered five 48-core Opteron servers to add to our existing five 32-core servers.