Official Bulldozer "Zambezi" date: August-September

[bamtan2]

At the AMD presentation today:


http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-comp...-/12494-3.html

90 days from now is September. Fall season.

Video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbIboX36Lhs#t=4m08s (he sounds thrilled..)

[SEA]

90 days from now is end of august

[Brother Esau]

Basic translation equals September as a realistic interpretation

[-Sweeper_]

well, late summer is more like september...

[Olivon]

Seems hardware.fr was right weeks ago.

Congratz to them

[Vardant]

Back to school is not a bad time to release a new line of CPU's, but still...it seems so far away from now.

[[XC] hipno650]

well that plain sucks. even worse is the rumor that they are delaying due to the fact that performance is uncompetitive with current clock speeds and they needs produce a new revision to get high clocks which will bring them on par with SB. even worse for AMD is the fact that SB-E will be out close to that time and will widen the Gap even further.... I guess that gives us an idea as to how fast BD really is

More and more this reminds me of the Phenom Launch...

What is the official date for Lano launch? I assume that will not be effected as it is not very similar to BD and more similar to current Athlons.

[Brahmzy]

meh..

[stangracin3]

how does this remind any of you about the phenom launch?

Phenom Launch

AMD: "BEST Native quad core ever built."
US: "YAY"
AMD: "Willl KICK penryn's ass"
US: "HEll YES"
AMD: "BEST Native quad core ever built."(shows BS numbers)
US:"OMGWTFFTW"

BD Launch

US: "AMD say something"
AMD: "NO"
US: "Please"
AMD: "HELL NO"
US: "Pretty PLEASE"
AMD: "WTF don't you get about NO?"

[bamtan2]

to me it sounds like 3dfx, death by a thousand delays.

the board makers must want to strangle AMD right now. first the p67 recall, now this. a bunch of product nobody is rushing out to buy. it's hard for them right now.

this all must be part of the reason the AMD chief executive was let go. the board members know the trouble behind the scenes. we better hope llano is successful, because a world without AMD is a world where Intel rapes and pillages, drinking our blood and having roaring adventures.

[highoctane]

Lets just hope that they can sufficiently fix whatever the issue is in a new stepping.

It sure does bring back memories of phenom I.

[Kobaltrock]

to me it sounds like 3dfx, death by a thousand delays.

the board makers must want to strangle AMD right now. first the p67 recall, now this. a bunch of product nobody is rushing out to buy. it's hard for them right now.

I am not so sure about that, most of them stopped making the 8xx lines, so they needed something to replace, and selling 9xx is a good way for consumers to future proof their purchase--if they still want AMD.

For most of the hardcore guys, then this really don't make much of a difference. If you needed a upgrade now, then you know what you must do. If not, then you just wait...and wait...

[undone]

Lets just hope that they can sufficiently fix whatever the issue is in a new stepping.

It sure does bring back memories of phenom I.

They may not have serious issue, they just put Llano forward to play it as a more important role, and push Zambezi behind, that's the aftermath of changing strategy.
BTW Rick Bergman said Zambezi looks great now.

[gallag]

Well, that just plane sucks, at least show us some numbers amd.

[highoctane]

They may not have serious issue, they just put Llano forward to play it as a more important role, and push Zambezi behind, that's the aftermath of changing strategy.
BTW Rick Bergman said Zambezi looks great now.

Something is fubar'd, that's the reality at this point, 60-90 days from now means we need time and we don't know exactly how long but we hope 60-90 days is enough. If this is a change in strategy its not a change by choice, it would be a forced change.

Why would Rick Bergman ever say anything otherwise of any product in the AMD family.

[FlanK3r]

what it means "PIBs" at screen?

[highoctane]

what it means "PIBs" at screen?

Clue, Processor __ Box?

[informal]

Proc. in a Box.Means you can buy one in a store.

[HotGore]

Even if Bulldozer does beat SB it might be short lived by the time Intel releases 2011.

[freeloader]

Well, that just plane sucks, at least show us some numbers amd.

Oh, we can't do that. It may cannibalize sales of our crappy processors we have now.

[Karolis]

Is it possible that 'processor in a box' means that a hard launch will be around then (60-90 days from now) and a paper launch will be earlier with some official numbers?

Anyway, what's with all the delay stuff? Weren't AMD only saying that they'll launch it in 2011?

[Chaserjzx100]

well at least amd now has a launch date unlike before were most people here played a guessing game....

[JumpingJack]

Is it possible that 'processor in a box' means that a hard launch will be around then (60-90 days from now) and a paper launch will be earlier with some official numbers?

Anyway, what's with all the delay stuff? Weren't AMD only saying that they'll launch it in 2011?

AMD indicated in quarterly conference calls that desktop BD would launch early summer and server late summer.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...Bulldozer.html

JF-AMD has vehemently stated in this forum and elsewhere that desktop would come in Q2 and server in Q3.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphic...s_Company.html

Aug-sept is neither early summer or Q2.

[sin0822]

i have a feeling they will get crushed by X79 if they wait to long.

[Dimitriman]

That is very unfortunate for AMD. They had a good gameplan, but delaying Bulldozer by a whole quarter will certainly kill almost all the advantage they would have of releasing this product sooner than socket 2011.
Not only does this suggest that current revision is not on par with 2600k, but also means that whatever effort AMD had put into this product will look shadowed completely by Intel's extreme editions, losing them any marketing hype they managed to build over this product. If EE Sandy Bridge launches within 2 months of BD, it will be very bad for AMD. Now anyone who would take BD over 2600k will hold their purchase to see what socket 2011 will bring in terms of price/performance and there goes AMD's momentum down the drain.


What a shame...