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Sun To Use AMD Mobile Processor In Blade Servers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who'da-thunk-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like AMD is finally making some headway into supplying 1st tier business computer makers which the announcement that Sun will use their chips in upcoming blade servers. Apparently CNET can't help but speculate what this means for AMD's 64 bit Hammer."

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  1. Is it hot in here... by dynoman7 · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...or is it just AMD?

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    1. Re:Is it hot in here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      Is it hot in here or is it just AMD?

      Nope, Its the smell of your Karma burning.

    2. Re:Is it hot in here... by gilesjuk · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh no, does that mean my 256-bit graphics card is going to explode?

      What you mean is there's no real market yet for 64-bit Intel/AMD chips, sceptics don't think hammer will run 64-bit code as fast as Intel's offering and so there's no huge market. Itanium (or whatever they're calling it now) requires it's own nuclear power source so there's no market for that (who needs 64-but when you can cluster).

  2. Great by invisi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we can wait another 5 years for the new blade servers.

    1. Re:Great by ZoneGray · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's nothing... wait until you see how long AMD has to wait to get paid.

  3. Sickle servers by f1rs7p0s7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    would have been more pun-worthy to have hammer/sickle than hammer/blade.

    my bad. mod me down.

  4. Re:The weird part... by Ozan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Look at the stock listings after today's announcement...

    They should have dropped in the noun 'synergy' in the announcement.

  5. Re:Also on Ars Technica by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here on this intarweb thing we have this revolutionary technology called hypertext. The idea is to use links that you can click on to instantly view pages you didn't know existed!

    Check it out!

  6. Re:The weird part... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Holy crap, Sun charged ahead 0.3% and AMD tanked a whopping 1.5%! Stop the presses, AMD will be filing for chapter 11 tomorrow!

  7. Re:E-Cold War by The_Dougster · · Score: 1, Funny

    You have to build the Pyramids wonder first, or else have a really advanced Democracy. Usually I change my Democracy to Communism right before I instigate global warfare to keep my workers from rioting. Even then I kind of feel guilty about it...

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  8. BSD is DEAD by Idou · · Score: 4, Funny

    Honestly, I don't even know why that is funny here. I really don't think BSD is dead, and I have nothing against it . . . Slashdot is just really starting to effect me in strange ways.

    For instance, the other day I was making a little presentation to my boss and suddenly used the:

    1.
    2. . . .
    3. Profit!!

    Step list . . .

    slashdot is going to get me unemployed and single.

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    1. Re:BSD is DEAD by oingoboingo · · Score: 5, Funny

      For instance, the other day I was making a little presentation to my boss and suddenly used the:

      1.
      2. . . .
      3. Profit!!

      Step list . . .

      That's from South Park (the 'Underpants Gnome' episode). It's not a Slashdot thing (although being unemployed and single probably is).

  9. Re:Press by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately, this is probably AMD's idea of a big media blitz.

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  10. Finally a server from sun.... by no+reason+to+be+here · · Score: 3, Funny

    that will produce enough heat to be worthy of its namesake.

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  11. Re:Also on Ars Technica by cdemon6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    as a side effect, this prevents stupid people who don't know what this http://-url-thingie is to read confusing articels they don't understand :)