I think he's just mad because amd can't compete in the $200-300 segment right now.

I think they screwed themselves with the 2 int's and 1 fpu per unit config.
In theory I think it was an idea, good one maybe.
Fpu's take more voltage then int's at the same clock speed.
Most code uses integer code, regular registers to put it simply.
In that sense it seems like it has 8 cores, but in floating point it only has 4.
Which should be fine for most apps.

But it's not just that, it's the mem bendwith for one.
For 2, ipc.

I wanna give an example, a sempron on an am2 board.
I had to clock it to 3ghz just to watch youtube at 360p, or really any flash video for that matter.
That's pretty darned crazy when there cpu's that were years older outperformed them at lower clocks.

I do like there 1090t and 1100t cpu's, those were nice at the time.
They still do alright.
It's just personally, I wanna upgrade and I see these new 8 cores that have less fpus then what I got already, ad from what I've sen in benchmarks the only way they compete with intel these days is when they are under ln2, while the intel chips are on air...
That's a big freaking difference in some places, in others no one will notice the difference.

Amd is still doing alright for the avg customer, the "avg" gamer.
But when it comes to the best of the best, amd is not I'm afraid.

I'm going off topic though, and ranting on about crap people really don't care about.
Things are the way they are right now.
Amd has to go back to the drawing boards if they wanna compete in the high end.
I'm not just saying performance wise either, comparing power usage, there's no comparison right now at all :\.

Gpu wise they are doing alright they just need that power consumption to go down.
Which probably costs more money then what they have so they probably are just struggling on until they can make a move to a new fab.

As for there marketing, not everyone will see what they have done at idf.
But I definitely approve of the method they used at the idf.
Amd needs to specialize in something, so perhaps someone will invest in them.