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AMD eastern empire strikes back
FOLLOWING OUR STORY about its Far Eastern supercomputing adventures, AMD was quick to reply. According to a top spinner, AMD is not out of the running, it is still in with a shout.
Interestingly, however, neither Sun nor the customer in the case in question has denied the tale.
So, hang on. Say you were KISTI, and were guaranteed to get, say, 2,000 2.8GHz B3 Barcelonas by, say, 1 March, all deployed into your cluster. Maybe you'd give it consideration as long as the chips can pass a week of Global Linpack running non stop. Just to ensure the full-load stability of the system.
Somehow, we're not sure such delivery is possible.
AMD, wake up! You won this deal half a year ago, but Sun Micro was the one signing on the dotted line to get it done, and it has to deliver something - Sun ain't gonna pay late delivery penalties due to Barca's delay.
We'd all actually love you to keep the win if it is still possible, but Intel was fast, and pounced on the opportunity the moment your delays became serious. µ
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Didn't they release the ES versions of the 2.1ghz to select groups (i.e. Isohunt)? So can't they just crank out 100,000 2.8 ghz B2s and pick the ones that are working and give them a 200W TDP!
This is at the first post and anyone who thinks that what he is saying is "competition is only good if AMD is winning" 

AMD is monumentally smaller than Intel. When AMD stumbles they fall hard because they can only afford to compete when they are in the front running. Intel can handle small downturns and because of the "competition" come out better than ever. For example, Pentium 4=crap, the Athlon 64 smacked it up and down. Because of this "competition" Intel did not stick with the Pentium 4 and overcharge people for a space heater. Because there was an alternative they NEEDED to make something different. Also because Intel is so fricken huge with people who follow blindly they did not really loose too much ground. It just kind of stunned them. Kind of like if you were to walk into a kindergarden class room and a kid came up from behind you stepped up on a chair and smacked you in the back of the head expecting to kick your butt. And because Intels hands were full with the pentium 4, AMD kept smacking Intel, who got confused and flustered. 

So in conclusion competition is good when AMD is healthy because if AMD is not healthy Intel does not really have ANY competition. AMD does not have the manpower to put a Core 2 out of its butt. AMD needs to get healthy, it will be good for everyone including people who hold Intel stock.
My goodness, AMD messes up and the AMD fanboi crowd has a need to make it look like the Inq is pro-Intel.

You fanbois need to revisit The Inq's history.

Go back to Shaikou's place and keep the fake PhD company I hear his blog is getting lonely nowadays.
Please, It's Barça not barca. Barca is a boat.
I'm sure! Please don't even try to pretend that you are serious when you say you are rooting for AMD, in any context. I think it's abundantley clear which team you are rooting for. Don't insult our intelligence.
Ummmm....."We'd all actually love you to keep the win"..... No, I don't I'm Long Intel stock....

So, what is it really? Competition is good..... as long as it benefits AMD, or hurts intel, but otherwise competition isn't good? Is that it?

Typical Inquirer double standard attitude. I'm not surprised.