With six-core chips and a road map, AMD preps for stimulus money fight

WASHINGTON -- The government of the United States starts to spend of the billion dollars quickly to stimulate the economy. And it can be why Advanced Micro Devices Inc. this week indicated that it releases its piece of Opteron of six-core in June, well in front of program, and of plans to follow it to the beginning of the year next with a piece Magny-Course called which will embark in eight and 12 models of core. After that, it envisages a piece of 16 cores in 2011.

But while AMD was in Sunnyvale, California, announcing its chart of aggressive road of piece, Justin Rattner, Intel Corp. 'directing as a chief of technology of S, was in Washington, selling its company 's notches.

I think that we see a certain number of occasions, and what is we try to make to raise the conscience that it is one extremely favourable moment, Rattner known as. He spoke mainly about the profits about execution about late Intel Xeons, but the company is also conscious of the government 'plan of S to spend much of money in technology.

To be sure, AMD can 't be allowed is left in levellings financed by the USA of technology, not with its recent cord of the losses. And the government was good for the company. When AMD released its Opteron 64-bit in 2004, its first large users were centers of high-output computer which obtain much of their money, directly or indirectly, of the government sources. The giant computer fastest in the world -- IBM 's peta-measure Roadrunner, builds for the national laboratory of Los Alamos -- pieces of Opteron of uses.

The doesn of Rattner 't knows that how much federal dollars will go to technology and Intel known as always occasions in the government 'the plans of expenditure of S. I discover think that we were astonished that there is money in stimulus for high-output computer because it refers to, by climate change it said.

The government now sets up the processes by which he will spend almost the $800 billion money of stimulus on a series of projects. The government organizations will obtain many new waiters; technology is unrolled for health care; giant computers will be built. And new industries will go up. The government, for example, envisages to spend $2 billion for factories lithium-ion.

Rattner met civils servant and HIM of government of the directors to a here INTEL-active conference, and discussed the merits of the company 'of the technology of processor of S -- in particular its Nehalem, or Xeon 5500, plough horse of quadruple-core used in many the traditional waiters. Intel released a piece of six-core, Xeon 7400, last September. The eight-core Nehalem EX is envisaged in 2010.

AMD is trying to obtain in front of, of Intel particularly its Nehalem EX, said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst with Insight64 in Saratoga, California. That 's partly behind AMD 'decision of S to eliminate its piece of Istanbul from six-core five months in front of program.

Nehalem clearly seized execution favours that AMD had for, of very long time Brookwood said. Now, AMD believes that Istanbul will maintain them very competing during the next year, and outward journey then with 12 cores in 2010 will maintain them competing when Intel leaves with eight.

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