200,000 AMD Opteron Processors Find a New Home at Google

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March 3, 2006

200,000 AMD Opteron Processors Find a New Home at Google

I just reported over at the SEW blog that Google to Switch from Intel to AMD Chips. That is huge from AMD, the news sprung the stock up by $1.40 to $40.07 that day. But more importantly, 200,000 lonely Opteron processors have found a new home at the Google server farm.

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posted rustybrick in Google News & Press at March 3, 2006 8:47 AM Comments (7)

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As far as I understand the news, Google is going to buy AMD processors for all new servers. So the 200.000 existing servers will probably not be switched to AMD.

Posted by Mario W. at March 3, 2006 09:28

From $1.40 to $40.07 is untrue..

http://www.google.com/search?oi=stock&q=stocks:AMD&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAMD%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

At what point in the last 5 days was it @ $1.40 ??

Posted by Gabs at March 3, 2006 09:44

Just quoting the article. I am not sure.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at March 3, 2006 10:23

And Intel is giving a revenue alert today ... ;-)

Posted by Jojo at March 3, 2006 10:36

"Just quoting the article. I am not sure."

the article says it went up by $1.40 and ended on $40.07 so it started the day on $38.67

Posted by Matt at March 3, 2006 11:55