The 40 or so regional press were bored to death - or at least sound sleep - with five consecutive long speeches by AMD, Sun, IBM, HP and Dell, most of them emphasising AMD one helluva lot: performance, power saving (no mentioning of TDP), virtualisation, low voltage DDR2-800 memory and such.
The Dell regional server honcho's "when it's HPC, we recommend AMD" rallying cry may sound great for AMD, and probably result in some interesting outside calls to the company which started its life more or less as an Intel systems business. But the HPC market is notorious for near zero-margin donation-like deals which are becoming hugely unpopular in these crisis times, as witnessed by the unusually quiet SuperComputing '08 in the Austin, Texas, last week.

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