Just increasing clock frequency, which has driven much of the performance increases over the last decade, has become unattractive due to the extra power requirements. Slower clocked dual-core processors can still offer performance increases with multi-threaded applications.

It's really not an Apples to Apples comparison, if you will.

You might as well do some good with it.

How can the industry come up with standards if companies don't reveal their patents in committee?

One is as a money scheme and the other is to produce useful technology.

It took a little bit longer for these to launch; they said they would be launching them sooner.

Most designs take years. But it was very important for them to get back in the game and have a road map.

This is an all-star group of designers.

The performance numbers look good to me, and the power consumption is reasonable -- as opposed to unreasonable with many other servers.