bridito
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Sort of. The high-end really belongs to IBM.
Granted, but I'm primarily discussing the personal computer arena where IBM has no presence.
I cringed when I read that because it's presence in the article merely serves to communicate to the reader that the author has an ax to grind with AMD for AMD tearing up a roadmap years ago and taking a new approach to bulldozer altogether...a decision that was made for all the right reasons.
The bulldozer that is being delayed in 2011 is nothing at all related to the bulldozer plan that was to be a 45nm product to debut in 2009.
This is akin to someone arguing that because the Chevy Volt was delayed a few months this tied in, somehow, to management decisions going back to Chevy pulling their electric cars off the market in 1921. (I'm just making all this up, just to make a point though)
It is two separate, unrelated, decisions and pathways involved. There is no value added to the new news in that article - possible delay to Q1 2012 - to come from invoking a data point regarding a long-ago cancelled project that held the same project name.
...but it does speak to the intent, motive, and derision the author appears to hold for AMD, in general, and one would be silly to not consider this in weighting the likelihood of the rest of the article coming true.
Fair enough. I certainly don't want to come off as an AMD-basher as I still have one quark of intent to buy BD but it's swiftly diminishing down to superstring level. I do wonder how long it will be until someone puts the soundtrack of Don't Worry Be Happy under Read's initial AMD speech video though!
Such things are dynamic. However, it does give some sense to Dirk Meyer being fired. It was not a clever statement to make, when AMD didn't deliever in 2009.
One could on the other hand reasonably argue that the K10.5 turned out to have a long life. AMD didn't really need to replace it until Q1 2011 when SB came out and AMD lost the ability to compete in mid-end. But hopefully mr. Reads ambitions are a little higher - rumor has it that they are.
Read can be a great guy and a great CEO but nothing is going to change the fact that AMD simply cannot muster the development $ that Intel can as a much bigger company.