Quote Originally Posted by AliG View Post
dammit amd, why did you do this to yourself? They knew what intel was capable of doing once they saw conroe, and even though they were losing millions of dollars and even a few billion now, they still haven't gotten their act together and only pretty much tweaked k8's performance, k10 seems more like a core update than an entirely new marchitecture on it's own
FYI, the design for K10 was pretty much set in stone before C2D was released. There was little AMD could do to tweak the design so late in the game. I re-design would have taken about 18 months (longer), not counting debugging.