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AMD ups the ante for the multiway server market

Posted on 17 Feb 2004 at 13:25

AMD has confirmed its intends to up the ante for the multi-way server market.

'We're making a big push for the four-way server market' Richard Baker, AMD's European Marketing Manager told us today. Explaining yesterday's large, fifty per cent price cuts for its four- and eight-way Opteron server processors, Baker said the company was simply responding to customer demand. As we reported, the cuts included the 848 model dropping 52 per cent to $1,514.

AMD identified high-performance, cluster-based computing as the areas which were leading demand.

Baker laughed off the suggestion that the cuts were deliberately time ahead of the Spring IDF, where Intel is widely expect to announce a rethink of its 64-bit computing strategy, to regain initiative from AMD.

'Intel is often described as a 800lb gorilla,' Baker said, 'Well, it's always entertaining to see 800lb gorillas do backflips.'

Author: Alun Williams

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