Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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AMD Preparing an Opteron Paper Launch??

http://www.overclockers.com/articles791/
AMD has projected huge rampups before, just to have them vanish. Even if you're not skeptical about that, the production numbers for the 1Q seem to indicate continued big problems in making the things. Given the not-too-bad shipment numbers for the simpler socket 754 chip, this would seem to indicate some sort of yield problem with the more complex chip. They can make some, but not a lot.

It seems to me that somebody's getting excuses ready for a little-more-than-paper launch and early trajectory of the more complex Athlon64.

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