I’m waiting for the webcast to really comment, but I’ll give you my immediate knee-jerk reaction just for the record: WHAT. THE. FUCK. Talk about a slap in the face to AMD. I’m deeply disappointed.
I’m waiting for the webcast to really comment, but I’ll give you my immediate knee-jerk reaction just for the record: WHAT. THE. FUCK. Talk about a slap in the face to AMD. I’m deeply disappointed.
Not confirmed; it could be a load of hot air. It would be a massive slap to AMD though and a two-faced turnaround for Sun – they’re still flaming intel right now.
I’d say it’s pretty much confirmed:
http://www.sun.com/2007-0122/feature/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2007jan22_intel_live
A slap in the face maybe, but it’s good news for Sun regardless. The diversity of having both manufacturers supporting Solaris and running inside Sun hardware will help as the ‘CPU wars’ continue.
Just from AMD’s own projections, it look like Intel’s quad-core will be about 20-30% faster. If AMD doesn’t put the gas to it soon, Intel may be able to get around the problems it has with memory bandwidth. That being said, I think this is a pretty smart move. It gives AMD till the end of the year to get their act together, and assuages customers that if they choose to standardize on Sun they’ll be safe if at the end of the year Xeon continues to outperform Opteron.
The way I see it is that Sun will always use the best technology. AMD had the lead but Intel now have the most powerful CPU.
Spoke with a Sun VAR about this yesterday. He was not amused, seeing as Sun had been pushing resellers really hard to tell all their customers about how badly Intel sucked. Now, of course, they will have to tell those same customers that Intel is wonderful!
The only question is: how long before Sun flip-flops again and says that Intel and Linux suck?
There is no slap in the face. When Sun got on the AMD horse they clearly had the edge with Opteron/Hypertransport. Today is a different day – Intel for some workloads has an edge especially in the 1 to 2 CPU space. Why should Sun leave any money on the table? They are not moving away from AMD – they are just broadening the portfolio so I don[‘t see how this could be bad for customers. The main criticism is that they didn’t do a good job letting people know that Intel was a real near term possibility in their roadmap. They never said (John Fowler in particular) that they wouldn’t revisit the Intel arena but I’m sure only a few people knew this was coming so soon.
“The only question is: how long before Sun flip-flops again and says that Intel and Linux suck?”
Well, as linux really sucks, they don’t need to flip flop in this case.
Very interesting article: “Sun and Intel: WTF!?!”
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