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Athlon 64 Pushed Back to September
Orion writes "AMD confirmed today that their new Athlon 64 will indeed be pushed back to September. Originally planned to be released in April or May, AMD has decided to put all of its brainpower into the launch of the 64-bit Opteron, which is still scheduled to be released on April 22. This article explains that AMD is still going to try to get a few more Athlon XP processors out before the Athlon 64 hits stores. The 3000+ has a planned February 10 release date, and the 3200+ should be out by the middle of the year according to the article."
I'm saving a penny a week. I think I'll make it.
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
By delaying, AMD loses in the highend desktop arena, but is now able to spend those resources on the potentially far more lucrative Opteron systems.
The only problem with your logic is that, as far as I'm aware, nobody is buying AMD servers. And so although potentially more lucrative, in reality they are not. AMD's domain is almost exclusively enthusiast desktops and budget systems. I have never in my life seen a server spec'ed with an AMD processor.
The truth is that although their processors are as good as Intel's, the chipsets for AMD processors generally suck ass. Nobody can make a medium-level chipset like Intel. I think AMD would fare considerably better if they'd back up their processors with similar quality chipsets.