another AMD endorsement

[Jesse Keating]

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On Wednesday 10 March 2004 20:41, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> At work we're setting up a new web site with IBM's BladeCenter hardware.
> For a while there, IBM was the only source of true server blades powered
> by Xeon processors (everyone else used cooler P-III and Crusoe CPUs).
> IBM is now poised to upgrade their blade line to 64-bit processors. A
> single CPU PowerPC 970 JS20 blade is available now. IBM initially
> planned to go with Itanium2 as the Xeon's replacement, but an insider
> tells me they've decided to scrap their Intel designs and go with AMD.
> Look for IBM's official announcement in 30-60 days for dual and quad
> Opteron blades.

Interesting.  I'm supprised they aren't holding out for Intel's 64bit Xeon 
replacement built on the prescott core.

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