Intel Shoots For RISC Strongholds with Xeon 7500

NEW YORK—The way Shannon Poulin sees it, about 95 percent of the servers shipped every year are x86 systems powered by chips from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices. The other 5 percent, however, make up about 40 percent of worldwide server revenue. “That’s a small number of units for a large part of the revenue,” […]

Apr 12, 2010
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NEW YORK—The way Shannon Poulin sees it, about 95 percent of the servers shipped every year are x86 systems powered by chips from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices.

The other 5 percent, however, make up about 40 percent of worldwide server revenue.

“That’s a small number of units for a large part of the revenue,” Poulin, Xeon platform director at Intel, said during a meeting with reporters here April 6. “We’re trying to bring volume economics to that space."

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