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Bonefish -

Surely you know why this could be true. AMD shot their wad with SOI and Low K only to find out yields are bad. With yields bad they have no choice but to push Opteron ahead of Clawhammer because they can make up for the poor yields with high ASP server chips.

It would seem so. Clawhammer should have been easier to bring to production so why else push out the easy one? It would have raised ASPs against XP and Barton if it was manufacturable but it's beginning to look like performance was less than stellar and yields are worse than XP. What other possible reason can there be? Now, can AMD make Barton?

EP