Found this link to comments posted by Nigel Dessau , Sr VP AMD regarding the newly introduced Nehalem Server-class frigates....i mean processors
An excerpt-
Interviewer:
But they are the fastest – won’t that mean they will win all the business?
Me:
According to this website the world’s fastest car is a SSC Ultimate Aero. It does 257 mph and goes from 0-60 in 2.7 seconds. Have you ever seen one?
Interviewer:
No.
Me:
I think that might be because it’s Twin-Turbo V8 Engine with 1183 horsepower has a $654,400 base price. But more to the point: the 0-60 mph speed of a car does not define how long it takes to get across town. And most customers buy servers to, well, get across town.
More than ninety percent of what we sell is not our fastest part. The market for the fastest part is always small and in this economy it’s likely even smaller. And while Intel may leapfrog AMD in raw performance (for the moment, at least) with the ― oh so flattering ― overhaul of their server architecture, they are also introducing a new learning-curve and resource-drain for an already cost-sensitive and disruption-averse IT environment
Interviewer:
But they win over 30 benchmarks. Surely that matters for something?
