Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

wbmw,

in case you haven't noticed, Unisys, Bull, Legend, and others are already shipping E8870 systems, and they have been since December. I guess the chipset slipped at least 6 months...

Well, doesn't it contradict your earlier FUD err, I mean assertion:

"I suppose I'll have to amend my statement to say that *if* a company relies on a single outside firm to own the designs that will be the main revenue source for their business, they better make *damn* sure that the firm has a long history of reliability in their products, their schedules, and their relationship."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=848898

Your other point: Serverworks? Grand Champion? Anyone ever let you in on how disasterous that product launch was? I couldn't agree with you more. ServerWorks at one point had "a long history of reliability in their products, their schedules, and their relationship[s].", far more so than Intel at various times, and then they blew their schedule.

How about IBM's Itanium II chipset? That schedule has been blown as well. There have been others with Itanium platform ambitions, and as far as I can tell, only HP was able to deliver something on time.

So basically, all these giants don't really have much more credibility than the tiny Newisys. As far as I can tell, Newisys has not blown any schedule, and their designs will become available with launch of Opteron. (AMD has, but that's another subject).

Joe