Boze
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At least such vague statements are good to stir up a lengthy discussion. Human nature doesn't like soft facts with attached probabilities.
I got some soft facts for us all...
By the time I could actually put a Zen processor in my hands, Intel will be two microarchitectures ahead of where they are right now with Cannon Lake. Most of us are on Haswell, a few on Skylake. Give it another two years, I imagine the majority will be on Skylake or Kaby Lake.
So Zen has to entice people away from what exists right now as well as what exists in the near future.
That's a tall order to fill. And AMD doesn't have the world's best track record with exceeding expectations of USERS. Zen might "exceed expectations" of its own engineers, but that doesn't really impress me much because I don't know what they're expecting.
I can tell you what I'm expecting. Something as powerful, with the performance per watt, as Cannon Lake. Anything less and I'm not interested.