Originally posted by leukotriene
The Itanium and the Opteron are positioned in quite different segments. While it's true that the Opteron scales superlatively, the quad-capable Opterons lose a bit of their advantage due to AMDs pricing policies.
An Opteron 848 retails for about $1500 for one processor, which isn't a bad deal compared to quad Xeon or Itanium processors, but still somewhat less compelling than if it were $1,000.
I think AMD should drop their prices to gain additional market penetration since they need more Opterons out in the wild to encourage AMD64 development.
yeah, if they were to come out with a lower priced 4xx series, that would definately take off. companies are probably saying, why have 4, when the CPU supports 8?
plus, you never would have thought AMD CPUs would cost that much