Official Bulldozer "Zambezi" date: August-September

[[XC] hipno650]

Really I fail to see how people are trying to rationalize this as "good" or "ok" buy saying Lano production is takings all the fab time from BD. have a fast and competitive CPU in a higher performance bracket does wonders for marketing and sales in the lower performance brackets. if that was the case you would see AMD launch BD in limited numbers while pumping out Lano chips. it was also AMD's plan to launch in Q2. Not to mention once X79 is out things will look even worse at launch for them...

the time to launch for them is NOW if the product is remotely competitive to SB. considering boards are out.

when was the last time you can remember a new round of boards made specifically for a line of CPU's launching way before the CPU???

I really hope this new rev. can do some wonders for them.

edit:

the reason I likened this to the Phenom launch is:

-EXTREME COMMUNITY HYPE (people thinking it will utterly destroy Intel and going on for pages and pages about it)
-MOAR HYPE
-RELEASE DATE SET
-MOAR HYPE
-DELAY

lets just hope it does not end like the Phenom launch: a terrible CPU fought with issues.