On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Brandon High <bh...@freaks.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Tim <t...@tcsac.net> wrote: > > Given the current state of AMD, I think we all know that's not likely. > Why > > cut into the revenue of your server line chips when you don't have to? > > Right? > > AMD has nothing to do with whether ECC exists on the Nehalem. > Of course it does. Competition directly affects the features provided on everyone in a market segment's products. > > Most likely ECC is in the memory controller of the Nehalem die, it's > just disabled on the i7. It wouldn't make any sense to tape out a > whole new die for the server version of the chip. The Xeon could use > another stepping, but I'd expect Intel to use the same on both > consumer and server versions of the chip. > The fact Intel put a memory controller on die is PROOF that AMD has a direct effect on their product roadmap. Do you think Intel would have willingly killed off their lucrative northbridge chipset business without AMD forcing their hand? Please. --Tim
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