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Just wrote this out from the Q&A for my hardware site:

Journalist: Rick you mentioned that you will be sampling Bulldozer and Bobcat in 32nm, Fusion products in the first half of 2010. That would suggest that you either have taped out or is close to taping out all those products. Can you give us some sense off where you are in terms of the development on those cores?

Rick Bergman: We don't really give out inner milestones, but we, obviously you know how the semiconductor industry works. You know, June of 2010 is 7 months from now, it takes a few months to build these things so I don't think your comments are off-target at all we are, we're loading up the gun getting ready with our next wave of these fantastic products

Journalist: You mentioned, I think the roadmap for Global Foundries showed that you had, that they were doing 32nm in the second half of 2010. So how do you actually get those built in the first half?

Dirk Meyer: That was a production question.

Emilio Ghiraldi: That's manufacturing ramp, which is consistent with the...

Journalist: So they are doing the tape-outs now?

Rick Bergman: Oh yeah, absolutely and we have running material, we have material.

I think many of the AMD guys on stage were thinking "Will you just shut the up already?"
Yeah I know,inq picked up the story too :
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...d-sample-chips
AMD will sample chips early next year
Bulldozer, Bobcat and Fusion previewed
By Nick Farrell
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 12:32

AMD SAID yesterday that will release samples of processor chips built with its Bulldozer and Bobcat CPU cores to computer makers early in 2010.

Senior vice president Rick Bergman said the company wants to give its customers enough time to prepare for product releases at the end of the year.

The plan is that hardware manufacturers can see what is coming so they can gear up to produce products as soon as the processors become available in volume.

The Bobcat core has a sub-1W capable core with four integer and two floating-point instruction pipelines.

The Bulldozer core is a Bobcat with another 4-pipeline integer unit added. Instead of having one combined integer and floating-point scheduler, Bulldozer has two integer schedulers that share a single floating-point scheduler.

Processors incorporating multiple Bulldozer and Bobcat cores will be built on a 32nm silicon on insulator (SOI) process using high-K metal gates.

AMD has also been talking up its Fusion products, which will be a combination of processor and graphics chips, suggesting that it will be making something that Intel can't.

The company claims that Fusion will do its thing by putting the memory controller in charge. Initial fusion cores are going to have both x86 and GPU components, connected via a shared memory controller in the form of a crossbar switch.

Since GPUs need massive memory bandwidth the memory controller is important, particularly if you have multiple CPU cores to work with. AMD needed to come up with a way of feeding several CPU cores with a few hundred GPU cores attached, and apparently it thinks it has.

Pulling this off will be a technological feat in itself and making it work will show that AMD is back in the running. AMD has been falling behind Intel in the chip technology race lately and this has been hurting its bottom line. µ
I expect for terrace to come in and tell us all this is impossible and that Bergam and all the rest actually meant 2012 and it was a slip of the tongue.With that date in mind we should then expect the actual hardware on the shelf by the early 2013 . /sarcasm mode off