Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[bobs10]

I had already read that Hexus statement and got a chuckle out of it. It kind of reminds me of the old joke about the gorilla and the guy being locked in a room with the gorilla wearing a sign about his neck saying "If I catch you ...." However, in this case it looks like the guy (AMD) is wearing the sign.

Anyway, I hope your schedule pans out. AMD's roadmap still has Toledo as the only DC consumer product available and only in H2. Whenever I see H anything I think the very last date possible. However, in this case, given that the infrastructure is already in place it does seem likely that AMD could easily bring up the release date. If so it should be "Good Eats" and not the Alton Brown variety.

What I find totally incongruous is that INTC/DELL plans to market Smithfield as a gaming machine. Talk about not being in the right church, they're not even in the right county. But then those INTC marketing $s seem to be able to sell ice blocks to Innuits, so who knows? I have a very hard time figuring out just what the Smithfield market is. Smithfield kind of gives me Itanium de-ja vu all over again. Again INTC is trying to drive the market where it doesn't want to go with products that have no programming support. Things are a little different this time, as eventually the consumer DC market will evolve, but it's going to be a slow uptake.