Originally posted by: aigomorla
i was trying to point that out.
the sides are old and wrong.
according to those slides, we should already have i5's, but according to that roadmap, 32nm i5's are around the corner when the 45nm's were just previewed not too long ago.
either that or intel picked up a bad habit from AMD called DELAYING BS.
aigo these slides came directly from Intel and were released to the media (anandtech, hot hardware, tooms, etc) at a coordinated press release and conference held on Tuesday.
That are as authentic and as close to the latest public roadmaps as it gets.
If the information contained in the slides does not jive with your expectations (or anyone else's) then the purpose of the conference is fulfilled, your expectations are to be re-aligned with the new/planned reality as demonstrated in the slides.
Once caveat to reading release timelines to those vague marketing slides where the x-axis appears to be linear in time but there are no sub-markings at less than annual intervals...buyer gets what they payed for when assuming something is to be released 1H or 2Q vs 2H or 4Q from those slides.
This slide for example, the reader could easily be convinced that Intel means to imply the start of 2009 calendar year lines up with a vertical line that would hit right around where the 2009 label is. For all we know they centered the label 2009 within the actual 2009 time-range on the chart, so all the stuff we think should be here now isn't actually schedule for release until June or July.
No mystery, just misinterpretation of what the timeline means.
At any rate my point is this - don't try and scrutinize the slides looking for reasons to call shens based on what you think you know from past roadmaps or leaked conversations. Everything got changed up right after Christmas once early 32nm yields came in so well and the financial situation of Q4 collapsed so markedly.
The coach just thru out the playbook for the game and called in plan B. Take plan B at face-value, forget what you thought you knew was going to happen, and progress from here.
Originally posted by: magreen
I read the AT 32nm article today. Maybe I'm reading those weird Intel slides wrong (they're hard to read), but I don't see a Nehalem-based server any time soon, as in not before end of year 2009. Where the heck are they?
I thought the whole point of Nehalem was to take back the server space, and the minor improvements on desktop were gravy. So where are they? Last time I asked, idc you said validation. But a whole year of validation? The desktop part has been out for months.
I think you might be misreading the charts. Remember Nehelem-EP = Nehalem Xeon for gainestown (1S and 2S). Nehalem-EX = Beckton = 4S platforms (think dunnington)
Nehalem-EP comes out 1H/09
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...howdoc.aspx?i=3513&p=4
http://images.anandtech.com/re.../enterpriseroadmap.jpg