The scariest thing about this architecture is that it seems like it has no long term viability. High clocks have been not the way to go for performance ever since laptops started outselling desktops.

If your putting bulldozer in a laptop, your both going to get bad performance and bad battery life. Even if they fix the manufacturing process, they will needs to boost speeds well above 3.5 ghz and this will be a battery killer. The key to getting long battery life, speed and thus mobility is high performance with low clocks. Months ago, before all this performance numbers were released, Bulldozer I thought had too high of clocks to get competitive performance.

This thing is in many ways worse than fermi. Fermi atleast took the crown and was much faster than its predecessor. It also appears to have an easier fix, as components that were already in the architecture were disabled on earlier models and reenabled for it forthcoming models when the bugs were kinked out.

Bulldozer is fully enabled and adding more clocks is a band aid solution because they are going to run into a wall where adding more clocks adds to much heat and power consumption.

AMD used to be about more performance per hertz. I miss those times. Remember when a 1800+ thunderbird performed like a 2 ghz. intel even though it was like 1.5 ghz or something. What happened to those days. AMD has lost focus so much. I hope AMD has a new design in the works, but it looks like from their 10-15 percent performance increase over years, we are stuck with BD.

The biggest reason for disappointment for me, is BD was supposed to be and had to be the foundation which AMD builds the rest of their company. With BD being so bad from the get go, I have a feeling AMD may concede the high end market altogether(they must hate selling such a big chip with so much cache for so little) and basically drain until it is dry, their APU product, which will dry up sooner than later(next year) when it doesn't bring enough CPU performance to the table. I could see AMD not being around in 4 years.