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@madd: they needed to do both same time. Originally, bd was supposed to come on a mature 45nm process. But i think it wasnt ready and too slow maybe.. So now tick and tock same time^^

Yes, and both, GF's process and the processor are f***ed up. That's why you should not do that, it doubles your risks ...
Well, to be fair, so far we only know about the process, a few day are left, just then we know 100% about the processor, too.

Also funny, the next step is probably neither a tick nor a tock. After BDv1@32nm there will be BDv1b@32nm. Well, officially it is called BDv2, however, there is obviously the possibility that BDv2 might just be a bug-fixed BDv1, hence BDv1b. In the last days/weeks I learned to always think about the worst case *g*

Short: To me, the appropriate comparison is not intel, it is nvidia. They got equally f***ed with Fermi and TSMC's 40nm process problems. Nowadays, GTX500 aka GTX400_1b runs nice. Let's hope that it will be the same for AMD and BDv1b ;-)