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Why AMD Opteron Print
September 2006

(for Technical Readers)

A technology update given to the local IT industry by AMD recently claimed that AMD leads Intel on 4 technology fronts- 64bits, performance wattage, multi-core and virtualisation.  The briefing provided worldwide sales statistics showing that AMD is taking up more market share gradually in all market sectors over the last 24 months.  Is it pure marketing, or AMD indeed has done something that the computer user communities wanted?  With a revenue level that is about the same as what Intel spends on research and development, how would AMD beat its big brother heads on?  These are indeed interesting and valid questions.  Nevertheless, we are more concerned with the contribution of AMD technologies to schools, if any, than anything else in the context of this newsletter.  The quick answer is YES and definitely.  AMD technology is certainly fit for the education sectors, and its K8 architecture has provided good reference for our educational agenda.  The attached power point slides will explain AMD technologies and provide a comparison with Intel to reveal differences.  Compucon has always been biased towards technical leadership and not marketing. The first Compucon flagship model was an Intel Pentium Pro server machine back in the mid 90's.  It reached the peak with Intel dual Tualatin but hit the wall when Intel released the first Xeon that has subsequently shown to be an inconsistent product line with frequent changes over the last 5 years. Compucon then introduced dual Athlon MP as an alternative for the sake of achieving greater consistency. Then the Compucon flagship changed over to Vanadium when AMD released the technically superior K8 machine powered by Dual Opteron.  Vanadium has earned a lot of praises from corporate and education institutes.   The good news is that AMD has confirmed the production lifespan of Opteron for another 18 months minimum! This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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