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I think that AMD are just waiting to pack enough 3 GHz and 3,2 GHz working "Istanbul" chips. They cannot launch a Phenom II X6 CPU that doesn't have at least a speed of 3,2 GHz because the performance in most games would be inferior to the Phenom II X4 and also in the rest of the frequency sensible applications and, of course, the single threaded programs. I don't dare to hope but I think there should even be a 3,4 GHz Special Edition / Extreme Edition just to be sure that the launch paints a good picture even if the availability of such CPUs would be lower than 2 or 3 thousands pieces.
So, besides the fact that maybe the platform needs some retouches, I think they are just building enough inventory for a May 2010 launch.
Also, if I think optimistically about this, if things are going well, AMD will launch even in late Q1 or early Q2 2010 if they are so permissive with the information leaks. After all, what's surprising to me, is that there were little to no leaks about the Radeon 5870 ... so AMD is very secretive about it's projects lately ... and if I think about the surprise that the Phenom II launch was and the same goes for Radeon 5870... really think there's a chance that AMD will launch Phenom II earlier than it let's it leak out.
So, besides the fact that maybe the platform needs some retouches, I think they are just building enough inventory for a May 2010 launch.
Also, if I think optimistically about this, if things are going well, AMD will launch even in late Q1 or early Q2 2010 if they are so permissive with the information leaks. After all, what's surprising to me, is that there were little to no leaks about the Radeon 5870 ... so AMD is very secretive about it's projects lately ... and if I think about the surprise that the Phenom II launch was and the same goes for Radeon 5870... really think there's a chance that AMD will launch Phenom II earlier than it let's it leak out.
[Posted by: East17 
| Date: 10/10/09 04:33:19 PM]
| Date: 10/10/09 04:33:19 PM]
| Date: 10/11/09 04:41:42 PM]
AMD should have better concentrated on achieving higher speeds than adding huge amounts of needless L3 cache ... I think that a Phenom II 3,8 GHz without L3 cache would have been a much better competitor to the Core i7 . And also it would have been much cheaper to make with also higher yields. Putting that L3 cacheless CPU in a 2S or 4S server would he probably been much worse than the current 6Mb L3 Cache design so ... I guess AMD really had no choice than going for the bigger L3 Cache ... although a Turbo option for at least 1 core. Turbo clocking 1 core to around 4 GHz would have done wonders for AMD's benchmark numbers.
