Quote Originally Posted by Skratch View Post
...if sandy is a better performer they have no reason to put out ivy bridge yet since they will pick up sales from people that were waiting to see how BD will stack up against sandys.

Things get delayed from both sides,its not intels fault that BD is not out yet.It is AMDs fault that Ivy is backed up tho.There is no reason for intel to put out Ivy since there is no BD yet.They can easily sell a crap load of sandys while they wait for BD to hit the streets.
So you're the one who'll cut his own face to spite others? Intel's shareholders will bloody murder the people in charge if they found out that they are holding out on new tech which will potentially give them higher margins per chip. Well, smaller chip mostly translates in reduced cost and the shareholders love nothing more than a bigger share of the pie.

Now BD... i know someone personally... i guess that person wouldn't mind giving out the date of the launch... let me see what i can dig up! However, it is a different region and i guess the availability dates may not exactly be the same as in US.