AMD ROADMAPS show that the firm is positioning its ever growing family of server products while it is also, we believe, following Intel's pattern of printing slower frequency, but server capable processors with the desktop Athlon64 acting as the flagchip.
However, these system prices, compared to the Xeon system prices we've seen recently, indicate to us that AMD will attack Intel to the tune of several thousand dollars per box.
We suspect this may well precipitate a server price war in 2003, just as the introduction of the Athlon XP precipitated a desktop processor price war. It's clear that, as Intel anticipated some time ago, AMD is taking aim at the Xeon with these typical system prices.
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News source: The inq.
However, these system prices, compared to the Xeon system prices we've seen recently, indicate to us that AMD will attack Intel to the tune of several thousand dollars per box.
We suspect this may well precipitate a server price war in 2003, just as the introduction of the Athlon XP precipitated a desktop processor price war. It's clear that, as Intel anticipated some time ago, AMD is taking aim at the Xeon with these typical system prices.
View: Full Story News source: The inq.
AOL has offered little comment on the patent or whether it intends to enforce it.
"There are no plans to do anything with the patent at this time," a London spokesman for AOL's Internet division, America Online, told Reuters on Thursday.
Microsoft and AOL have recently embarked on a project to develop secure chat applications for corporate users, the first major effort to cash in on what has been a largely free software tool. Reuters Group is one of the biggest corporate clients, using Microsoft's IM technology.
AOL has scores of other technology patents, including one for Internet browsing memory tags, or "cookies," and another for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), an application that secures e-commerce transactions. But it has never sought to enforce these.
It has, however, been notoriously protective of its IM technology. It did not permit rivals' proprietary IM applications to communicate with its own AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and ICQ for years. It now allows this, albeit in a limited fashion.
The new patent defines AOL's IM application as one that enables users to chat with and identify one another across a specific "communications network," opening up the possibility for AOL to collect royalties from rivals.
Developed in the mid-1990s by a group of Israeli technologists at a company called Mirabilis, ICQ was the first breakthrough chat application. It filed a patent for its technology in 1997 and was acquired by AOL in 1998 for $287 million.
AOL said it has 180 million registered AIM users and 140 million registered ICQ users. The company said 2.1 billion instant messages were sent across its network daily.
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