On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:27:30PM -0700, mathog wrote: > Recall that when the Opterons first came out the major manufacturers > did not ship any systems with it for what, a year, maybe longer? I > vaguely recall SuperMicro going in quickly and Dell, HP, and IBM > whistling in a corner. Something about contractual obligations to > Intel, or a desire not to piss off Intel.
Uh, it's more complicated than that. There's a ton of proprietary info related to shipping a motherboard and BIOS with a given chip, and iirc Intel insisted that anyone who worked with their proprietary info not have access to any AMD proprietary info. Once you add that to the fact that many of the big companies didn't want to bother with high-end AMD servers until they were a proven success, and you get a year-long delay. I don't think it hurt AMD that much in the end. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
