Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[pgerassi]

Dear Morrowinder:

Take a look at various sites that list stock quanities.

At www.newegg.com all high grade Prescotts and Xeons are either not listed or not in stock including Dothan 2.0. All AMD speed grades are available including FX53 939/940, 3800+, 3700+, 3500+, Opteron 250 and 150.

All reported sites here or in SI show this to be true.

I know it is difficult for an Intel supporter to believe, but one must face the real world. And that world says that Intel paper launches and Nacona was the worst so far.

Normally there are good engineering samples at third party review sites many weeks before launch. Those that report when they got them, stated that they recieved it the weekend before the "release". Now that is less than a dozen. Since Intel can't make enough for that small a population, they can not be in true production.

They can't even cherry pick a few from the thousands of Prescott Xeon dies being made. Normally a company wouldn't even call this sampling, much less in production. Yes, sure the lower speed grades may be available and truly be in "production". But there is no higher speed bin available and it shouldn't be released. But Intel is so far behind in performance that they must vapor launch a speed bin even though it only shrinks the gap.

They hope to have 3.6GHz to be available in the future. But how long before it truly is shipped in "production" quantities? Last time it was 4.5 months and still counting, although a trickle has appeared. This time, it will be more like 6 months.

Pete