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[Megacharge]

seems like your Vendor knows something....

Yes.. he knows how to make a quick buck off of those who don't know better.

[Dresdenboy]

after some bench leak

1055T in my country price increase

At the same time, EUR/USD went down:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=EURU...=on&z=l&q=l&c=

[Fottemberg]

he's from Argentina
In Brazil a X4 955 costs you R$280, wich is about ~U$155
very expensive, isn't?

In Italy 95 eur, ~U$130.

However, is it a "Sempron BD" a dream? 2 cores BD for low budget config ...

[dess]

Fottemberg: There is no 2-module BD die, so it would need to disable 3 modules on an Orochi die to have a one module active only part. I don't think it's going to happen.

There are Phenom II's and Athlon II's for that purpose, until EOL'ed.

Otherways they cover mainstream and budget with Llano now and later with Trinity.

[m411b]

Do peeps not like Legit Reviews or something? I posted this yesterday and just about everyone ignored it!

AMD Bulldozer CPUs Launching October 12th w/ Prices Starting at $175

[informal]

It's a repost from Donanimhaber news which we knew already. But it won't hurt I guess.

[m411b]

It's a repost from Donanimhaber news which we knew already. But it won't hurt I guess.

Damn, oh well! I didn't see it , sorry for re-post; again!
There are so many friggin pages now that it's hard to read it all to see whats been posted.

[Manicdan]

yeah i love when someone says, "we mentioned that last week, keep up!" only to realize that means 20 pages ago

anyone else hate how good AMD is at keeping secrets.

[Fottemberg]

anyone else hate how good AMD is at keeping secrets.

True.

... AMD Employee loses a Bulldozer prototype in a bar ...

[Canis-X]

.....now we're talkin!! Name the bar and I'll be there! LOL

[Mats]

Name the bar and I'll be there! LOL

To leave a CPU, or to pick one up? You have one?

[imamage]

after some bench leak
1055T in my country price increase

Well I hope the price for my hometown won't increase so much ......

[Canis-X]

To leave a CPU, or to pick one up? You have one?

LOL.....If I actually had one, I wouldn't be sitting in on a forum killing time. I would be benching/gaming and doing my best not to tell anyone anything that I wasn't supposed to.......twould be extremely hard too!

[LowRun]

anyone else hate how good AMD is at keeping secrets.

I respect that, what i hate tho' is that they remain silent after missing their deadline so badly.

[Canis-X]

Uh-Oh....

http://semiaccurate.com/2011/09/22/a...-bergman-gone/

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21697



http://hardocp.com/news/2011/09/22/a..._cloud_mystery

AMD Fires Rick Bergman Under Cloud of Mystery

Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AMD has been fired according to HardOCP sources. AMD has given no reason as to why the well seasoned Bergman was leaving his position. It was told to us that Bergman had interviewed for the just-filled CEO position months back at AMD and had been turned down. Since then we have been lead to understand that AMD has lowered the boom on Bergman for not managing the GlobalFoundries relationship properly. Sources tell us that GlobalFoundries is simply not up to the task of supplying AMD its needed parts and Bergman is first in line when it comes to the responsibility of making sure AMD is sourced properly. We understand that Bergman will be the first of the dominoes to fall.

Rick Bergman is senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s products group, with responsibility for delivering AMD’s computing platforms and managing the graphics and microprocessor product development teams.

I first met Rick a bit over 10 years ago. Rick was a hell of a nice guy and we wish him the best.

http://www.amd.com/us/aboutamd/corpo...k-bergman.aspx

Executive Biography

Rick Bergman
Senior Vice President and General Manager, AMD

Rick Bergman is senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s products group, with responsibility for delivering AMD’s computing platforms and managing the graphics and microprocessor product development teams.

Bergman’s previous role at AMD was senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Product Group (GPG), which he held from October 2006 to May 2009. In that role Bergman was responsible for the worldwide management of AMD’s discrete graphics products, including the company’s industry-leading ATI Radeon™ family of graphics processors for the desktop, workstation, notebook, multimedia and game console markets. In that capacity, Bergman oversaw business operations, engineering and marketing, as well as iconic achievements such as the first DirectX® 10.1 GPU, the first TeraFLOPS-class GPU and the first GPUs on 65nm, 55nm, and 40nm process nodes.

Bergman came to AMD via the acquisition of ATI in October 2006. He joined ATI in January 2001 from S3 Graphics, a division of SonicBlue Inc., where he served as chief operating officer.

Over the past 15 years, Bergman has served in a number of marketing and management roles within the North American technology industry, including vice president of marketing at Exponential Inc. and marketing manager at Texas Instruments, Inc. He began his engineering career at IBM Corp.

Bergman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Colorado.

[Canis-X]

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[EniGmA1987]

Well, someone was eventually going to have to take the blame for the incredibly long delays.

[freeloader]

Well, someone was eventually going to have to take the blame for the incredibly long delays.

So it seems. Perhaps the problem all along with BD was not performance issues, but supply issues. Global Foundries can't seem to do anything right lately.

[JF-AMD]

Question for JF-AMD

I have got a supermicro H8QGL-6F ( quad socket motherboard ) with only 2 opterons 6128 HE. Now i want to buy two others 6128 but not HE. So my question is : is it possible to mix opterons 6128 with 6128 HE on the same motherboard ?

Thanking you in advance for the answer .

Don't know for sure. As I understand it, as long as they are all the same clock speed, there shouldn't be an issue, but it all comes down to what your vendor BIOS will support.Just because it is possible doesn't mean that they will be supporting it.

But if it is a hardware issue/problem then probably they need another stepping, aren't they? And that is more (too much) time for the final/retail revision, somewhere in december it could be out..oh man . I really hope that this cache problems can be fixed through software,bios etc.

Folks, we are shipping Interlagos for revenue right now. If there was a problem we would not be shipping.

Would be interesting if they allow you to run one core per module, I imagine that would mean the 8 core could become a very nice quad.

Ther overhead for sharing is pretty low. You'll most likely get better results with running on 2 modules, power gating down the other two and taking the higher boost state instead of trying to run one thread per module. Your results might vary, but I would be willing to bet that taking the boost upside is better in the long run.

[tbone8ty]

any more rumors of watercooling setup for AMD bulldozer?

or is Amd gonna get one up'd again by Intel?

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1707/

[imamage]

Uh-Oh....

http://semiaccurate.com/2011/09/22/a...-bergman-gone/

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21697
http://hardocp.com/news/2011/09/22/a..._cloud_mystery



http://www.amd.com/us/aboutamd/corpo...k-bergman.aspx

_Wasn't he the team leader who lead RV770 project?

[-Boris-]

Folks, we are shipping Interlagos for revenue right now. If there was a problem we would not be shipping.

Like when you shipped Phenom 9600 and Phenom 9500? And is that the reason for the delay from Q2 to Q4?

[wez]

any more rumors of watercooling setup for AMD bulldozer?

or is Amd gonna get one up'd again by Intel?

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1707/

If they're not going to bundle it with any CPU's, why even bother?

[-Boris-]

So it seems. Perhaps the problem all along with BD was not performance issues, but supply issues. Global Foundries can't seem to do anything right lately.

Nothing points that way. Llano which is harder to produce isn't affected at all. BD on the other side has been delayed roughly the time it takes to do a respin, and has changed stepping number, it looks like there was the design itself that needed tweaking.

[freeloader]

Nothing points that way. Llano which is harder to produce isn't affected at all. BD on the other side has been delayed roughly the time it takes to do a respin, and has changed stepping number, it looks like there was the design itself that needed tweaking.

Ah yes, I forgot about the stepping change. Would that change have anything to do with Bergman leaving AMD though? PCMag is reporting that he took a job with an unnamed company.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817...id=dJWbeUOIc7f