So all that leaves are the predictions. If I could accurately predict the future, I wouldn’t be writing this blog, I’d be out on my bike in the mountains of Spain, wealthy, retired and happy.  Alas, as my stock portfolio can attest, I am not so visionary in some areas.  But I can safely  predict that a good chunk of 2010 will be spent in seat 21B (exit row, aisle) and that at least once I’ll get to have some stir fried duck hearts and livers at 1010 新湘菜 in Taipei (highly recommended).

And I feel confident in predicting that 2010 will indeed be the Year of the AMD Opteron Processor.

With more cores, more power efficiency and more value, I predict we’ll be delivering all the things that most customers are looking for in a server processor.  Our ability to succeed in 2010 will not be driven by a piece of silicon the size of a fingernail. Our success will be driven by our ability to accurately anticipate what our customers need and deliver that to the market. We saw the need to match our product lines with the market’s evolution into 2 main segments (highly scalable and highly efficient) to meet customers’ needs.  When you see the portfolio of products that we will have in the market in 2010, from sockets to cores to embedded technologies, there is hardly an area of the server market where we won’t have a strong offering, which is why 2010 has our name on it

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