Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
only 6 months? there have been leaked samples more than 6 months before the launches in the past... and isnt bulldozer supposed to launch in early 2011 if not end of this year? in that case EVT would have started recently or would be well under way...
We have said 2011, not early 2011. I have to be very careful with my words because I cannot indicate when in 2011 the product will launch.

EVT is 6 months prior to launch, generally speaking. I can't get into any other product team's schedules, but for servers it is 6 months. If EVT started we would be launching in Q3 2010, and that is NOT the case.

A wafer generally takes ~13 weeks from start to finish. Once you receive parts they go through several steps that I will not reveal, then they land in our labs. We do some things to them from a test/qual perspective, and then, when they pass a certain % of qualification they are deemed EVT and sent on to our major partners.

The challenge here is that I have to be careful about what I say. People start doing the math to figure out where we are in the cycle. I am guessing that the original comment was started in that manner. Someone was hoping I would say they were wrong and indicate WHY they could not have samples. With an understanding of the process one could figure out where we are. Which is why I have stuck to "can't be true" and have not said any more.