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But then why stick with the plan to release things like Steamroller and Excavator? 6 months before release, AMD would have known that Bulldozer was a dud. But why continue development on the idea? Why not abandon it, when it was clear that it was not working?
iirc piledriver was the last of the construction cores to have significant resources expended on it from an engineering standpoint. steamroller and excavator had much of their planned resources taken to use on (presumably) zen.
it would have been interesting to see what an actual die-shrink would have been able to do for the construction cores.