Commoditization of 4-way

[Stephen Fuld]

Some Intel folks are still involved in the trade association. But not
to the extent they were before.

Fair enough. But back when they started, with their IB predecessor
proposal, NGIO, the idea was a total replacement for PCI, embedding it into
the chipsets, etc. Of course there was to be a transition, but there were
no plans for a "serial PCI" for all the reasons we discussed. That changed
for the reasons we also discussed.

 

[Scott Alfter]

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Oh, for goodness sake.

And it was Ford who invented the motor car, since noone else
mass produced, right?

Pointing it out probably constitutes nitpicking, but Oldsmobile (or the Olds
Motor Works, as it was then known) had its cars in production for several
years before the first Model T hit the streets. (Neither Ransom E. Olds nor
Henry Ford invented the automobile; they were just the first to mass-produce
them. Mass production != assembly-line production...while the latter
implies the former, the reverse isn't true.)

We now return to the regularly-scheduled topic, already in progress...

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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Vorbr=FCggen?=]

opteron is amazing in that it has its switching technology built in via ht.

And how many did they sell?

And in what way is that relevant to opteron being amazing, or not?

Jan

 

[Martyn Foster]

Oh, for goodness sake.

And it was Ford who invented the motor car, since noone else
mass produced, right?

Gottlieb Daimler or Karl Benz.... dicounting things that ran on wood burning
stoves.

Martyn

 

[Bill Todd]

....

Making innovation _profitable_ is arguably more

important than bringing it to market first and then going under, because the
former leads to permanent change and the latter is just fodder for
comp.arch.

1. Alpha was profitable, and could have been far more so. The consequences
of the fact that Compaq (and DEC before it, post-Olsen) chose to concentrate
on its failing PC business rather than on its profitable high-end products
have little relevance to this discussion.

2. Given the somewhat incestuous relationship between Alpha and AMD over a
significant period of time (e.g., high-level people and the EV6 bus), it is
not unreasonable to suggest that EV7's memory and glueless MP architecture
at least inspired and to some degree may have informed AMD's.

- bill