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by aceofspad4s 3088 days ago
They would have to screw up really bad for people to go to AMD. I think that may never happen.
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rbanffy 3088 days ago
People who need to get absolutely the most bang for the buck have no ties to any given supplier. Cray deployed one of the first Opteron-based supercomputers.

Intel got lots of datacenter business simply by having a better (as in "better suited to our demands") product than anyone else in the segment. AMD has a short time window to make some large sales. They have until Intel ships a microcode fix or a new line of processors.

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AsyncAwait 3088 days ago
> They have until Intel ships a microcode fix

Sounds like microcode fix isn't possible.

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rbanffy 3088 days ago
Then the next generation it is.

It's a 5-30% performance boost without even a major change. :-(

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BoorishBears 3088 days ago
Not disagreeing, but why do you say that?
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