Inquirer: "AMD's K10 delayed or dead"

[IntelUser2000]

I have to say Charlie is usually right. Meaning around 90% of the time. He has been wrong yes, which is only once from what I remember and he wasn't exactly sure himself as he stated(Hitachi's Itanium 2 chipset).

About K8 having 8-issue, initially there was rumors about that, and they had to scale it down(anyone wonder now why K8 was delayed for such a long time???) to current K8's. Apparently it went through like 3 phases before final version, which is the third one.

Charlie didn't quote anyone about Montecito's slips, and he was right.

For anyone else at the Inquirer, like the guy quoting VLIW for Conroe, that's FUD. When it comes to Charlie, I have to say he is right.

 

[Vee]

One thing is whether the article is, sort of, right or wrong.
Another thing is what you infer from it.

The K8 may have a lot of milage yet. To me, it seems there are several possible tweaks that should perhaps be made.

So AMD may intend to continue to compete with the K8 on mobile and desktop computing for awhile. With improved power features, improved IO, improved multicore connections, improved FP and improved IPC.

And the "K10" may not be directly aimed as a response to Conroe and Nehalem, but something different.

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: IntelUser2000
I have to say Charlie is usually right. Meaning around 90% of the time. He has been wrong yes, which is only once from what I remember and he wasn't exactly sure himself as he stated(Hitachi's Itanium 2 chipset).

About K8 having 8-issue, initially there was rumors about that, and they had to scale it down(anyone wonder now why K8 was delayed for such a long time???) to current K8's. Apparently it went through like 3 phases before final version, which is the third one.

Charlie didn't quote anyone about Montecito's slips, and he was right.

For anyone else at the Inquirer, like the guy quoting VLIW for Conroe, that's FUD. When it comes to Charlie, I have to say he is right.

I agree that Charlie has a pretty good track record...I wouldn't put it as high as 90%, but it's still pretty good. However, while he didn't give a quote on the original Montecito piece, he did change his byline to "Charlie in San Francisco" for it (while IDF was going on)...it was fairly obvious that he was getting this from the guys at the show.