On Saturday 10 September 2005 08:03 pm, Mike Marion wrote: > That'll help them in some markets, but in ours (EDA engineers) while power > is important, raw speed tends to be far more important. If AMD keeps their > lead in performance, they're market share in EDA will grow, which is a > pretty large market (in number of CPUs, not necessarily companies). We > keep forcasting more and more compute machines, and we're up to almost 400 > hosts today, from less then 1/2 that about a year ago, and we're probably > going to more then double that in the next year. As it is right now, > they'll likely all be AMD.
400 cpus or even 10 times that seems like a drop in the bucket when compared with consumer markets for millions of units. Does EDA really matter to Intel? Why? BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
