I.B.M. to Expand Use of Chips From Advanced Micro Devices
I have the greatest respect and admiration for AMD’s CEO Hector Ruiz, we have had several conversations about personal computing and internet access in Mexico, now he’s following through.
Dr. Ruiz is doing a tremendous job by forming a coalition of partners in the ultimate battle for market share for microprocessors. Intel has an impressive roadmap, but AMD is driving the compotation in the race for data center dominance.
IBM announced that Move, Inc., the world's largest moving community, will consolidate its existing infrastructure onto a virtualized IBM BladeCenter system based on the AMD Opteron processor to help dramatically increase computing performance and datacenter power efficiency.
Sun Microsystems continues to push the barriers of server system design by introducing three breakthrough x64 (x86, 64-bit) products: the world's first 16-way x64 server in a single 4U chassis; the world's first hybrid data server; and the world's first no-compromise blade platform. The three new x64 servers, powered by AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture.
Sun Blade 8000 modular system,
Sun and IBM have been in the microprocessor business for a long time and their partnering with AMD is significant and if IBM also contributes manufacturing capacity at their FAB’s, this race is going to get interesting..