Academia could be an early adopter. (Score 1)

I bet the makers of MatLab and Mathematica will be creaming over this processor. Science and Math department will probably adopt this platform every early on. Since math and science students will be the main users of these systems, they will also be more inclined to by adopt this platform for their own personal use, especial since its 32-bit backwards compatible and -hopefully- affordable. If amd and the computer vendors play their cards right, they could sell these systems as the ultimate multi-purpose computer.