I believe "1 PC Enhancements" should be "IPC Enhancements", where IPC is Instructions Per Clock.

OK so AMD want to put GPUs with CPUs in a blender and flip the switch. It will be interesting to watch but after the sorry story of Phenom delivery and fluff about how good it was vanishing down the drain, you can't shake that nagging feeling that the whole is going to be less than the sum of the parts. 

As for gamers this is more fluff, they are not the target audience. Noone who wants to game will pick a mobo for hybrid Xfire. The benefits will be miniscule. This is aimed at OEMs who like to persuade customers that they are getting cutting edge, hence the claims about gamers. It aint true but we know what it means.

I don't doubt that AMD watching has become a spectator sport in Santa Clara and the source of much pleasure. But they will be watching like a hungry hawk for any signs that AMD in the midst of its tribulation has improved on conventional wisdom. As will we all. If they can then they will be years ahead and Hector can keep his job, but that was the gamble and so far there is no sign of this, just a few expensive experiments in manufacturing economics.

Their launches of almost all their new product is in the dumpster, the CEO is getting a pay raise and...did they ever mention where the money is going to come from to stay in business?

Will they really be around in another year+?

And let us former AMD fans and PC enthusiasts in general have some rest. Stop getting our hopes up for no reason. AMD is the worst failure in the history of the PC industry, and they will not be around long enough to produce another competitive product at the high-end.

did they scrapped the bulldozer architecture?

I guess AMD is still trying to baffle us with the bullshit since they evidently can't dazzle us with their brilliance. Just more of the same old dog and pony show here.

The delay of the Bulldozer cores was just slipped right by you Charlie. I can't believe you're letting AMD slide on this major roadmap delay. By 2H09, the Stars core will be getting old. It seems that AMD has given up on being a performance leader - any old core will do.

Notice that "Falcon" (Bulldozer core fusion part) has been replaced with "Swift" (K10 core fusion part), and that Sandtiger (Bulldozer core server octo-core) has vanished from the 2009 roadmaps, vs. July Analyst Day.

In fact, no mention of Bulldozer at all.

Together with Dirk's comments about cutting R&D and performance no longer being important... 

Shows inner core of AMD just kept on Tickin, even after severe Licken'.
However, in spite of news that 8XX chipset is coming, when will Vista ULTIMATE come as OEM package?

Maybe World needs few more computer outlets? COMPworld?

These are bit more than Text Messaging celluar, inspite of good LG did there, there is extreme good in computing quality also, beginning to blossom, how about ULTIE,Charlie?

GIVE US ULTIE NOW!
thomas vondrashek

US Major League Baseball looks like kiddies playing with a chemistry set compared to the way-outta-the-park slideware AMD is consistently delivering. With impressive style, no less. F#IN-A.MD. 

Yeah, it is time to call the doctor.

One has to wonder... are the AMD execs coming up with this incredible slideware on the basis of their own talents... or are they getting help... a little divine inspiration, a little blessing from the poppy perhaps?

Reminds me of something:

It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Wow. That is the sequel to Barcelona, is it not?? No doubt, it will be the eater of worlds.

Well, the eater of words anyway.

Okay. Okay. I guess we can all agree AMD is not shipping anything that's real *and works*, F#IN EVER. 

But hot damn, that slideware smokes!!!

Well, it's the AMD 890S and <b>___870S___</b> chipsets, not 780S.

You need a bit of verification. :p

That's what this is. 

It reminds me of corporate meeting where the less someone had to say, the more jargon they had to fill it with (I've actually heard someone use "We need to be moving in a going - forwards direction" ....)

Seems like AMD doesn't have a whole lot going for it, and what it does has, it stuffed up. So this absolute plethora of codenames is meant to convince us that there's a lot going on.

I find it confusing and lame.