I can understand AMD not keeping up with the competition on the manufacturing front, all the yield issues and related delays, but come on now! Did AMD forget about all the expertise they had on the x86 cpu design? How can they possibly design a chip after 5 years of research, that fails to deliver the performance of their former cpu? What is the point in launching such a miserable chip? Why BD chip is so big in the first place?
It just doesn't make sense... especially when AMD graphics department is doing so well.