Claws out
AMD executives are pretty active bloggers these days, with chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau leading by example.
Yesterday, AMD's server/workstation business development director John Fruehe posted a blog entitled "Return on Hype" in which he has a pop at Intel's most prominent claim for its, admittedly much hyped, new Nehalem based server/workstation processor family, the Xeon 5500.
The post refers to Intel's claim that if you replace nine four year old servers running single core Xeons with one based on the 5500 (The slide we had describes replacing 184 old ones with nine new ones - a factor of 8.76) you can recoup that outlay in as little as eight months.
"The cost savings from energy alone will pay for new servers in about eight months," Fruehe quotes Intel as saying, having derived the quote from an Intel product brief PDF.
The ROI (return on investment) angle was definitely the most prominently plugged by both Intel and its partners at launch events we attended.
