Infoworld reports from the Server Blade Summit that power consumption, not hardware cost is becoming the big thing. AMD has a remarkable advantage over Intel here, and that is one reason you saw the "low power" 64 bit Xeon announced.
HP and Sun are both readying blade servers based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD) Opteron processor, according to Schwartz and Mouton. However, neither executive would confirm whether their companies planned to use AMD's recently announced low-power Opteron HE or Opteron EE processors in their blade lines. The Opteron HE and Opteron EE consume 55 and 30 watts of power, respectively, far less than standard Opteron chips, which burn more than 80 watts each.
Sun AMD Offerings Stealing SPARC Share
Written by Chris Tom
Tuesday, 09 March 2004 19:58
The Inquirer has details about possible share being stolen by Sun's AMD boxes from their SPARC boxes. There is no surprise there.
Bachman also raises the question of Sun's sales of lower-margin AMD products stealing market share from higher-margin Sparc-based products. Surely that would never happen in the IT industry. µ
