AMD satirizes Intel Atom S: too weak, too late

Intel released the first Atom S1200 series processor for micro-servers yesterday. Old rival AMD sent an e-mail to many foreign media one day before. The words were filled with disdain for Intel’s move.

AMD stated in the email: "Intel has finally realized the importance of microservers, but we doubt it is too weak or too late."

AMD also took a veteran: "Intel tried to tamper with history. Last week he pulled out of the lab a no-name engineer and boasted about their history of micro-server development. But don't be cheated. Intel's history on micro-servers is actually very high. short."

AMD invited media reporters to remember the following three points when attending the Intel conference:

1, SeaMicro SM1000 server (has been acquired by AMD) does use Intel Atom processor, but Intel does not support this, so many years have been arguing with SeaMicro.

2. Almost two years ago, Intel built a 64-bit dual-core Atom for SeaMicro, but Intel never publicized it.

3, Intel has insisted for many years that the market share of micro-servers will not exceed 10%, and now it is not outrageous?

AMD also ridiculed Intel for being behind in the small core, with no mobile phone market share, minimal market share for tablet PCs, and now fearing that it won't get a micro server.

Tom's Haredware, the authoritative hardware website, commented on this that it is a tradition for AMD to distribute such emails before the advent of new products, and it does reflect SeaMicro's current position in AMD. In particular, CEO Rory Read once stated clearly that the micro server will be One of AMD's three major outlets.

However, Tom's Haredware pointed out that when AMD said that his opponent was “too weak to be too late”, he actually did not have a product, but he had just announced his commitment to the ARM camp. The corresponding product will not be available until two years later.

It is even more stupid to laugh at Intel's lack of progress in the smartphone and tablet market. Intel Atom has emerged in a variety of mobile phones, tablet machine is also a response, although the market is not large but has been steadily progressing. What about AMD? APUs for tablet PCs are basically just doing what they do. Smartphones are simply not afraid to touch them. Even if Intel does not give power to ARM, it will not be able to evaluate AMD.

As for the 10% market share, Intel recently confirmed that they still believe that they do not even know whether the proportion of micro servers in the entire server market can exceed 5%. Of course, Intel is certainly not willing to take every opportunity to make money, and it is even more impossible to ignore the emerging microservers.

Interestingly, AMD SeaMicro actually has the biggest advantage, but AMD does not mention anything in this email. The new generation of SM15000 was also introduced at the time of its release. It is a unique high-density server high-speed fiber optic interconnect that can be used in data. Thousands of processors are supported in the center, and this technology is patented. In other words, Intel has nothing to say in terms of architecture, but the interconnection needs to catch up. The key to AMD Opteron's acquisition of many supercomputers is the better ultra-large-scale interconnectivity brought by the HT HyperTransport bus.