Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Haddock]

What's your personal opinion about SOI - was it a mistake? Several people expressed opinions, mostly negative.

You didn't ask me, but I think it's pretty clear now that it was a mistake to do a 130nm SOI process as anything other than a research project. Two different 130nm projects stretched their resources and betting the farm on SOI was a big risk.

The Barton reversal happened pretty fast. If they did not reverse Opteron that means things are not that bad.

Reversing Barton just meant they could base Barton on the already existing bulk Athlon design. There is no bulk Hammer design as far as we know. It is that bad IMHO.

I don't think anyone linked to this article (AMD fails to launch x46 Opteron in June)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10254
but I was on the beach for a week so perhaps I missed it.