AMD preps Opteron pages, disses Itanium

The page also points to an AMD and Windows Server 2003 web cast, which happens on June 19th next.

There's also a chunk of detail about SuSE Linux and her Enterprise Servers linked from this page.

AMD also told its partners about a PDF presentation on the Opteron, which you can find here.

It's a big PDF file, that starts off with the "Old School" point of view, Megahertz matters, against what AMD is claiming is the "New School", which is really Megahertz doesn't matter.

AMD describes its competition as levying a "migration tax" with the need to port software especially for the Intel Itanium.

The document also contrasts IA architecture with AMD architecture on page 12, and suddenly Megahertz matters again here, as the paper says AMD Opteron has "1000s of MHz and always increasing" compared to the Itanium which has "100s of MHz and is slowly improving".

Meaning, presumably, that megahertz do matter, but only sometimes. µ