Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
I think you are wasting your time.He now believes it takes 1.5-2 years from tape out to bring out a design like this to market
?? 12 months is normal. A new uarch with a troubled process can easily get you to 15 months. It's doing so well that altough it taped out some time ago it will be sampled to customer sometine this year. Everyone is free to drawn their own conclusions.

He also seems to forget how modular this thing is.They need a single module part to work like it should. Desktop is 4 of those on a die,server is a MCM just like MC.
They should hire you to show them how the work is done. Probably the uncore part doesn't matter, "it's enough for a single module to work like it should". Care to tell me where K10 floped ? Was it the core or the uncore ?

If underlying design has no showstopper bugs,Q2 2011 is a valid target for desktop and Q3 for servers.
That puts it on top of Llano. Would be quite a feat to get it so soon out.