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Now that I think of it, could it be that the delays suffered were on purpose?
If bulldozer was on time (lets say June 2011) it would leave enough time for intel to tweak Ivy bridge and rush the release to catch up before christmas, instead of the expected january 2012 release

However, if AMD delays bulldozer, intel wouldn't have enough time to play catch. Of course, if AMD is so confident on their product.

But other people say the delay was caused by Sandy Bridge, which pushed AMD and made them change their plans. Now, what theory is the most certain?
 

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most likely none of them, people love making these theories but usually its just some boring mundane excuse that excites no one.


look at the AMD CPU's in the past with the TLB bug - most users never noticed it, only a small percentage did. it could have just been a similar bug, it could have been a supply or manufcacturing issue.

maybe they came up with a revision change to produce better yields, who knows.
 
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Dont worry it should be out in a few months. People will always be speculating its in their nature, me i just sit back and it comes whenever it comes.
 
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I was under the strong impression that AMD has been using this time to adjust core clocks specifically to match SB performance and spit out a few batch revisions for better power efficiency... rather than launch early and revise later like they have in the past.
 
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most likely none of them, people love making these theories but usually its just some boring mundane excuse that excites no one.

look at the AMD CPU's in the past with the TLB bug - most users never noticed it, only a small percentage did. it could have just been a similar bug, it could have been a supply or manufcacturing issue.

maybe they came up with a revision change to produce better yields, who knows.

That's something rational, but isn't strategy an important part too?, and as AMD is doing well in other areas, but the real fight is against intel products. I can't explain AMD doing fine in everything except this, but in the other side, if Intel wanted to make a competitive discrete GPU they just can't. Same did XGI with their volari line. They had roadmaps that blewed everybody's mind, but things never happened.
 
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