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AMD's weak point is large enterprise class systems. Would make sense.

[Dead Corpse]

I'm currently working at AMD on the K8 platforms. Confidentiality agreement in full force, but from what I've seen so far, the Optetron smokes IA-64.

[Pistolshot]

AMD has been digging a grave for themselves for the last 10 years or so competing against Intel for market share. AMD may have some advantages over some of the early Pentium line, but the Intel Itanium(servers/networks) is true 64-bit high end processing and the newer Pentium 4's have better end usage performance. 300mm wafer production is the next big evolution in semiconductor manufacturing and AMD is way behind in that.

As far as commercial sales EVERY vendor, Compaq, HP, Gateway, Dell has jumped on the Intel bandwagon. Why? They deliver.

[Benrand]

Yeah, but what's the video card? GeForce 4?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here is a good review on the two chips:

Opteron and Itanium: Two Roads to 64-bit Computing

The Link is to Ace's Hardware.

The following leadin is from 2cpu.com:

Opteron and Itanium: Two Roads to 64-bit Computing
Posted by Jim at 7:56PM EST

Ace's Hardware has another interesting article up, this time dealing with AMD's Opteron and Intel's Itanium. Two companies with a different philosophy with respect to 64-bit computing.

However, in the workstation market, the Opteron can be a very effective weapon. As we have reported before, the Opteron's platform is very scalable and the hypertransport is a very elegant way of interconnecting the ASICs making motherboard very flexible and less expensive. Running a 64-bit version of Windows, the Opteron can offer 4 GB to each 32-bit process without any performance hit. Being significantly improved over the Athlon MP, we expect the Opteron to perform exceptionally well in workstation applications...

This was an interesting read. See for yourself.