On the AMD side, the workstation and server platforms have always been fairly slow to advance. An example is the venerable Athlon MP platform, the 760MPX. With endorsements by HP, IBM and Sun, the Opteron is turning heads in the IT world. The Opteron has fared a little better with the AMD-8111 to the 8151 chipsets but the changes have been largely incremental - the 8131 added PCI-X, the 8132 PCI-X 2.0, and the 8151 AGP 3.0. Feature integration is a problem as SATA is still provided through an external chip and driver support under Linux is lacking as we have found out recently. Nonetheless this is understandable as with enterprise level hardware, IT managers tend to balk at unproven, wholesale changes.
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Neoseeker
Jan 24, 2005, 04:58 PM
