You got to remember that it is never mas's fault that his predictions go awry, it is the fault of the idiots at AMD who failed to execute as they should have. Never mind all the people here who correctly predicted nearly all of AMD's most recent failure modes, we were just lucky. :-D
Why, Harpertown generally did so the condition was not fulfilled. Barcelona failed commercially because AMD released it with a bug and lost valuable time with a respin. It's not a bad chip. As to tri-cores AMD have not really clocked them high as I said they should so the potential was lost. As to Sun they only reason they are facing oblivion was the fact they sold out to Oracle due to some pushy large shareholders, they were surviving well before then.
I'm so friggin right !! Ruiz has screwed Intel for all time, Abu Dhabi can now buy AMD and grind Intel into the ground with their bottomless oil money. Barrett and Otellini have cost Intel shareholders billions both in their stupid buys, bribes, unnecessary price cuts and now fines. Once again Spaarky you are missing the much bigger picture which I never do ;-).