Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post

Rearranging the board is no problem, but that is not my world, we make chips not boards. You're talking about ~$100K to do a 1P board.
You make chipsets too don't you? (okay maybe not your department but the company in general)

But selling more processors is nice too isn't it? Let's say the current Lisbon and Thuban are similar in price to manufacture and are sold at similar price points, wouldn't it make sense to try to flog say two 150-200 dollar (current Thubans and a number of Lisbons are priced there) processors and a board with your chipset at 30-50% higher prices than 1P boards? AMD could use the mindshare to move up the performance graphs too. I mean, people do pay for 300-400 dollar intel processors are 300 dollar X58 odd boards don't they? (let's ignore the extreme series)

How about doing that with bulldozer? That seems a very typical enthusiast kind of price to pay?


By the way, who pays if a manufacturer like Asus or MSI come out with their own layout? Always been curious about that one.