Auf dem Pacific Crest Technology Forum 2006 wurde AMD durch Randy Allen (AMD Corporate Vice President) vertreten, der am heutigen Dienstag eine Präsentation abgehalten hat.
Ein Audio-Webcast der Präsentation kann <a href="http://www.wsw.com/webcast/pc4/amd/" target="b">hier</a> verfolgt werden.
Ein kurzes Transkript der Präsentation steht uns dank Sven.K zur Verfügung.
<ul><i>"Randy Allen (AMD) Server Business:
Server Business had a phenominal explosive growth
Seamless Upgrade Path
DC-Architecture
Later in the Q announce new Platform (next Generation Operton)
Opteron 26% Unit-Share 33% Revenue-Share
50% of 4-Socket Space
04->05 Number of Platforms doubled
05->06 will double again
Not a lot of traction till 2Q06
Last week IBM launch means a significant deepening in relationship
Opteron clear leader in Blade design wins
Leadership in Virtualisation outperfoming competition by 30% on
workloads
Focus on continuing to grow
NG Opteron: Consistent Architecture leading on Performance/Watt
Quadcore-Upgrade on existing platform (in Socket 1207/F)
Allows OEMs to minimize interruption
Investment-Protection
Switch DDR1 -> DDR2 requires this change
90W Envelop on Quad-Core as in Single & Dual Core
Virtualization:
Nested Paging was defined and requested by Customers (Xen)
12 Features driven by partners
Underlying hardware contrains instructions speeding Virtualizations.
Are adding extensions today
working together with MS, VMWare & Xen
Enhanced RAS capability
Online Sparing capability in next Generation (? nicht genau verstanden)
First Customer requested FBDimm, but came back saying they see
more and more problems in that and are happy with AMD going DDR2
Q&A
new target in commercial client market?
Adoption of Opteron was very slow, but adoption barriers are down now.
procurement problems regarding switch from intel?
scale-up capability & Architecture help migrate, perf\Watt... Now RAS features...
Customers tell, they now make lot of purchases on perf\Watt
Server-Chipset changes now with ATI from Broadcom/NVidia?
Already started integration planning team
Customers like choice... No action to disturb that!
Continue to work on with BRCM/NVDA"</i></ul>