[geeks] Sun to adopt newest Intel Xeon chips for upcoming servers (link)

[Mark Benson]

On 23 Jan 2007, at 06:32, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:02:42AM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Just an FYI, thought some here would be interested, it appears Sun  
>> is going to
>> anounce later today that they are adopting Xeon processors for  
>> some servers, in
>> addition to it's currnet UltraSPARC and Opteron offerings:
>
> This is a good Thing (tm); I rather like Intel's latest offerings  
> (and I've
> been a Core Duo user on my Macs for a year now).

I have to say I agree with Bill, I also think this will bring a good  
price point as Intel are able to offer off-the-shelf reference boards  
for most server form-factors, which will require minimal re- 
engineering, thus keeping development costs down.

Performance-wise, yeh, Intel are in front at the moment, by a yard- 
arm, but you never know what AMD have up their sleeve. I guess by  
offering both they can surf whatever wave fits, for performance or  
economy. I'm pretty sure Sun's campaign for using servers with lower  
power consumption will be boosted by the Intel CPU range over  
Opterons also.

FWIW I wonder if they were probably able to do this by virtue of the  
fact Dell have gone the opposite way recently, in a move that to me  
smacked of just not asking Intel the right questions - they don't  
look like they knew what Apple knew for sure.

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