Bulldoze that Sandy Bridge

[Kobaltrock]

Maybe they are trying to get rid of old stock of boards.

I somehow doubt this, they would have stopped producing boards way before '11 swung around.

It could be a chipset issue of some kind though. End of May is a very long way away...

The socket will most likely be called FM4 as the AM name is being dumped by AMD. That socket better be bigger than 942 pins or it's not sale!
They (AMD) better make sure that BD has better memory bandwidth than the Phenom CPU, otherwise people will end up moving to Intel. So AMD get your act together or prepare to lose sales.
The memory bandwidth sucks as it is.

I am also wondering if AMD will have IOMMU on all chipsets, instead of only the fx series (990fx?). That, with increased memory bandwidth would be a killer.

Intel screwed up by not allowing VT-d on their 'k' series of CPUs, so I hope AMD enables this for all their line.