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Can clouds and virt move the battle off the chip?
Analysis As last week was winding down, Advanced Micro Devices took control of upstart server maker SeaMicro, and guess what? AMD is still not getting into the box building business, even if it does support SeaMicro's customers for the foreseeable future out of necessity.
Further: Even if AMD doesn't have aspirations to build boxes, the company may be poised to shake up the server racket as a component supplier. Perhaps not as dramatically as it did with the launch of the Opteron chips nearly a decade ago, but then again, maybe as much or more - depending on how AMD plays it and Intel and other server processor makers react. ... 続きを読む
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/27/amd_seamicro_server_plans/
2012/03/28
AMD plots an end run round Intel with SeaMicro's 'Freedom
