One thing I think is that AMD has even more room to shine as software gets better at parallelization. I saw this trend back during my days managing 250gb+ data

One thing I think is that AMD has even more room to shine as software gets better at parallelization. I saw this trend back during my days managing 250gb+ data generation/day at a genetics company, and eventually got to build a 4 cpu, 64 core AMD Opteron system for physics computation. I am super-excited about the new server line of CPU's, because the Opteron line wasn't perfect and I expect they learned a lot from it. Also, I only need to get 2 cpu's to get that 64 core count again! I dream about supermicro or someone doing a 4 cpu board for the new line... 128 cores... (hey, I can dream!)