BAD HARDWARE WEEK

What the hell happens? Bad Hardware revealed Barcelona B0 revision at Cray 8 months ago. At Computex, AMD demoed only that Cray's development B0 version at non respectable 1,6 Ghz. We can't be satisffied with a 1,6Ghz chip, made some 9 months ago, right? Now, what is AMD's next move?. AMD is currently in B1 stepping (provided that the starting one wasn't B-1), and AMD internal evaluation showed that it is still not quite competitive with Intel. So, Barcelona B2 respin will be needed, and finally , but only in August or September, AMD would have at disposal an phenom competitive answer. Anyway, 3-4 months between the revisions is a phenom, furious production pace at AMD. And regarding illiterate computer hardware journos, let me to mention that B2 chip revision usually means pretty stable , mature product. Now when AMD's second , Far East fab just started first production ever, of low priced shrinked K8 chips, no need for launch of not quite finished superb products that could cut prices of the first really high volume production at AMD. People who don't understand that are inevitably Intel's arse holes or ordinary morons. Who wants glued chips in his mission critical server pool? Above is of course genuine 4 core Barca pic , seems the first ever publicly seen, and below is quite ready, 4 way AMD Barcelona board. Sorry, no revision data.