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IT'S NOT JUST Nvidia that's going to party with AMD at the Athlon64 ball. We learnt that ATI is going to do one too. MSI will release a motherboard for the workstation market later this year.

Tyan was showing off its Transport TX28 1U box with dual Opterons, and also its Tomcat K8 motherboard, which supports one Opteron processor, has integrated PCI graphics and LAN controllers, six 32 bit PCI slots, and which uses the AMD 8111 Hypertransport IO hub. It's also got a Thunder K8 S2280 board, this supports the Opteron 200 series, takes two processors, can take dual channel 128-bit registered DDR 333/266 memories, has integrated graphics with 8MB memory, and dual channel Ultra320 SCSI and Serial ATA.

There was no sign of Supermicro or any of its works or trumps at the event. But space was pretty restricted anyway, and while there were SuSE, RedHat and other folk dancing around, there wasn't any room for them to strut their stuff.

Here's some highlights from the Q&A, held immediately after the main event.

To a question asked by the INQUIRER about exactly how many 64-bit AMD chips will ship this year, the firm would only say that it stood by the figures it gave about outshipping the Itanium. So if we manage to find out how many Itaniums have shipped since launch, that should give a good clue to the numbers, and the revenue.

Sanders: "Next year, all the world". "Over 60% of servers are Windows".

Meyer: "The 800 [Opterons] will include industry standard bridges that interconnect to industry standard buses".

Ruiz on IBM manufacturing Opterons. Only AMD and IBM can meet the process challenges of these chips, so if we do choose to work with someone else there's only one choice.

Sanders: "Intel is big, strong and wrong". Its 64-bit architecture is proprietary, "Intel can't stop us".

Via : Inquirer

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