Quote Originally Posted by r1ch View Post
Nothing much in the article itself, apart from the questionable reason to publish this for the world instead of explaining the reasons when they finally did launch.

For proof of AMD bias, read some of his other articles. It's clear as day.

As I said before, hopefully just a BIOS update required. Anyone else know anything about the 'instability' he's talking about?
Rahul is overall a good guy, but a self admitted fan of AMD and he makes sure that is understood when he writes certain editorials.

He is biased toward AMD, and he is disappointed with AMD's performance and Intel's rise in dominance, and has stated such a few times.

Read the May 13th blog entry: "What happened to the lean mean AMD of yore?"
This is an extended version of the article that I wrote for print. Admittedly it’s one of the hardest articles I’ve written in awhile as I wanted to ensure that what I say comes across exactly as intended. It’s no secret that I have been a fan of AMD for years and years – and I wrote this article with nothing but good intentions.
Frankly, that article was more of what we need -- to stand up and demand better of AMD as the competitive gap is widening and hope for catching up is slowly fading. A non-competitive AMD is not good for the industry.

Nonetheless, it does not surprise me that someone of the higher echelon of the AMD camp tries to downplay or put some spots on the 45 nm launch. Obviously there are instability problems with a 3rd party chipset, not so much a problem with the CPU but a problem with the CPU+chipset combo (we can only assume nVidia and SLI related configuration as he is a boutique builder).

Frankly, I see this as poor form and lack of professionalism on Rahul's part where it is obviously a chipset problem but he would rather peg it to Intel.