Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 09:06:37 07/01/03
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On July 01, 2003 at 09:15:42, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>Funny how the 844's are $2149, but yet still WAY cheaper than the Xeon-MP's and >>Itanium 2's. And the Opterons own them. > >whom does opteron own? certainly not the customers; they are all owned by intel! > >It is extremely funny how AMD has to sell these processors at throw away prices >to attract customers; funny only for intel though as they are confident tht >customers will pay top dollar for intel products which are actually cheaper to >manufacture than AMD processors; but its not fumnny for AMD and not for >customers either as these are only virtual prices as AMD is unble to ramp up >clock speeds; (the best AMD can do is 2.167mhz; the AMD 2800+(non-barton which >is actuallu the fastest AMD processor for chess can't be had for love or for >money! > who cares if an opteron at 1.8 Ghz is as fast as a Xeon on 3 Ghz? >meanwhile intel is going from strength to strength!
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