AMD Responds to the Sandy Bridge Bug: Marketing ramps up... but new processors do not

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AMD is unleashing a... marketing campaign. Ok, we were hoping that

with the Sandy Bridge bug and its delay, AMD would step up and release

at least some new CPUs and perhaps the new AM3+ platform. But alas, we

take a look at the only official response to Intel's stumble. While

this is a new trick from AMD, will it be enough to gobble up some

business that Intel left on the table by pulling Sandy Bridge parts

from the market?

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=1081

 

Quote: "The biggest potential win for AMD would have been a successful

AM3+ motherboard launch, but they still were not able to move up that

particular product. If AMD had been able to come out swinging with

this new socket, and new motherboards designed around it, we could

very well have seen a much more significant boost to AMD. While there

are no Bulldozer nor Llano based chips available, AM3+ boards do

support current AM3 processors. Releasing the high end 990FX and

budget 970 boards, neither of which utilize the integrated graphics of

Llano, and populating them with current Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs

could have provided a nice impetus to AMD and given the company a

marketplace more prepared for the new CPUs to arrive later this

Spring."

 

Thanks for a post!

 

Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com