I think its best everyone just believes what they want to in regards to this issue that's been discussed over and over.
AMD has never really been good at designing or delivering on time, hell they even bought designs back in old good old days and then reverse engineered the Intel chips to make their own. Even the K7 was never a AMD design
The K7/K8 architecture has served a good few years for AMD but now, with Intel's fierce acceleration in performance has come the time when AMD needs a new architecture to compete. Quite frankly it's the first time they need to do it on their own in a major way, no more NextGen or the like to buyout anymore, oh no.
It makes me angry at how AMD felt confident in bashing the Pentium D and asking for a duel making silly jokes back in late 2005 and now can't come out from hiding behind the bush and just show the world the CPU in the flesh with benchmark numbers given they think it's so darn good. If they're man enough to do A then they should be man enough to do B because the world wants it and anyhow, it would help there financial situation if it really is as good as they make believe.
AMD is just a child out in the wood not knowing which way to turn. They should have never thought of themselves as world class leaders back in the Netburst <> K7/K8 days and instead went back to school to start design on K10 much earlier. But no they thought Intel will be stubborn until the 22st century and continue their Netburst until China reigns as the new world empire. Any analyst knows that Intel changes its architecture every 4-5 years. Intel new darn well that their Netburst didn't plan out as planned by 2003 but they couldn't just jump ship. When you're a stock exchange company you can't go spending billions purely because oh no, we made a mistake so we'll double are R&D just to correct it, who cares our earnings per share will be negative for the next 4 quarters. Intel had to wait 5 years to make this shift feasible and reengineer the P6/Klamath/Deschutes/Katmai/Coppermine/Tualatin/Banias/Dothan/Yonah architecture into a new king of the hill.
All this AMD throwing wonderful claims is all just marketing wind to blow the dust away and make most believe how it's clean and perfect over in Sunnyville.
They are the underdog by a big margin both in terms of market share and financial prowess and so if they want to regain the markershare they just lost back to Intel then they should show the world the goods.
AMD lost a golden opportunity to stay competitive with Intel. You don't ever rest on your laurels just because you're one up on your competitor in whatever kind of event, you keep at it and make sure you have a plan B if your other develops some kind of wonderful achie vement. But no, AMD felt king of the hill haha and went off on a spending spree wanting to build a fab in NY and buy ATI, ah that's petty cash, we spend US$8 billion every Xmas. There's a simple methodology in business, if you're small take small risks, if you're big then take bigger risks, but only if you have to and it improves your company's image and bottom line.
I'm sorry guys but I'm just tired of all this AMD secrecy. They're taking you for a ride because they're in panic mode. They're paranoid how to make good with what they have and stop the money bleeding.
Such a small company in the semiconductor industry and so full of themselves I regret to say. You don't find Samsung as the #1 in various semiconductor segments claiming upmost victory do you?
This is not about being an Intel or AMD fan boy, this is about taking the center view and seeing the facts just as they appear. I would love to see AMD do well however they're hit themselves in the food and have a dead leg with which they can't run.