Sayan’s BlogWorld

A very thorough analysis of the server offerings from AMD and Intel. AMD’s Opteron offerings (single and dual-core) take the crown beating Intel’s Xeons. The verdict is that AMD has a far better product line-up and it will take Intel at least a year to play catch up. Of course, AMD has already started talking about quad-cores to deal with that, the cool thing is that AMD’s x86-64 architecture was designed from the ground-up for scaling to multiple cores and high memory bandwith (something Intel architectures are choking up on).

AMD’s President Hector Ruiz is interviewed about AMD’s innovation 64bit x86 technology, dual-core processors and $100 computers. My favourite line from the interview is:

…AMD isn’t planning to do something like Intel Inside?

Ruiz: No. We prefer to be on our customers’ side rather than on the inside.