ackthpt writes "Code named Red Storm, Cray and Sandia National Laboratories (US Dept. of Energy) to build a 100 Teraflop super computer employing AMD's Opteron (Hammer) processors. Alluded to in the WSJ (non-free-as-in-beer subscription required), also in Infoworld, and Reuters."
temporary setback
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GunFodder
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AMD has been suffering recently because they are focusing their efforts on Opteron, and meanwhile Athlon isn't getting any younger. This is a temporary setback; if Opteron is any good then AMD will be performance competitive again, allowing them to sell at higher price points and get a better margin.
AMD was in the same funk back when Intel released the Pentium II and AMD was still working on Athlon. Once AMD got Athlon out the door they started doing a lot better.
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AMD has been suffering recently because they are focusing their efforts on Opteron, and meanwhile Athlon isn't getting any younger. This is a temporary setback; if Opteron is any good then AMD will be performance competitive again, allowing them to sell at higher price points and get a better margin.
AMD was in the same funk back when Intel released the Pentium II and AMD was still working on Athlon. Once AMD got Athlon out the door they started doing a lot better.