AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU

MrSeb writes "After an awfully long wait, AMD has finally begun shipment of its Bulldozer-based Interlagos (Opteron 6200) server-oriented CPU. If you believe AMD's PR bots, it is the world's first 16-core x86 processor. Unfortunately, and possibly because of reports that AMD is struggling to clock its Bulldozer cores to speeds that are competitive with Intel's Core i7, there's no word of the 8-core desktop-targeted Zambezi CPU. If AMD doesn't move quickly, Intel's Sandy Bridge-E will beat Zambezi to market and AMD will lose any edge that it might have."

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Re:Sandy Bridge-E

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How is it a monopoly if (as purported) AMD chips are both better AND cheaper?

Well, Intel provided huge kickbacks provided that they didn't sell AMD processors. AMD lost billions when the Opteron was stomping all over the Pentium 4 on the desktop and in the datacentre. Intel got a big fine, but not big enough. Given the amounts involved, there is no way the whole thing wasn't a net benefit to Intel.

Decision makers don't give a crap about the name, they care about the value for the dollar. And Intel has that.

Not across the board and they certainly didn't when it counted.

It doesn't take too many productivity-sapping weird incompatibilities and spontaneous reboots massive illegal kickbacks to sap any dollar advantage AMD might have.

FTFY