AMD and Intel: New Nehalem Processor

It was no secret that AMD took a bit of a beating when Intel launched its new Nehalem server chip, the Xeon 5500. AMD are now fighting back and hopes to be able to recover from the beating. Pat Patla, AMD’s server chief had been asked in an interview with TechPulse360 if Nehalem’s slowest, server chips would be able to beat the Opteron chip, Patla had said that it seems incredulous.

He added that the slowest Nehalem chip is dual-core, while the Opteron chip is a quad core. Intel have not been bragging in any way and do not claim that its dual-core Nehalem chip beats Shanghai’s fastest, so it seems that this is a spin for AMD.

Chipzilla has said that it’s slowest quad-core Xeon 5500 will outperform even the fastest Shanghai processor. Patla has added that both hyperthreading and QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) are overrated; QPI is just a rip-of the standard HyperTransport.

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