Well Dave said it already, but I can repeat. You can't have a delay on a date that was unconfirmed speculation. This is just further BS and/or further proof that past speculations were BS.
Just be glad it is winding down and release should happen before BF3.
Well, I mean, I do understand the confusion though, too. AMD had a different CEO, with earlier launch dates, who wanted Bulldozer first, and APUs last, as there was only one fab line running the 32nm node.
The board of directors said no, APUs need to come out, and warned the CEO about it, and when, @ CES, he re-iterated that the focus was NOT APUs, he got fired.
Since then, the board has been looking for someone to do what they wanted..APUs a priority, and Bulldozer not. Since then, any and all release dates were suspect, in my opinion, becuase clearly AMD's focus as a corporate whole was in question.
I think the original plan was to mature the process using the BD chips, but now they used the APUs, which, even as "slow" as they are, do meet very decent levels of performance for thier intended market.
As AMD doesn't talk about things not quite ready for sale, none of this sort of info ever goes really public, and I'm really just guessing, but looking back at the past year or so, it does seem to make sense in hindsight.
Now, of course, part of the reason i think so is because of the console market, and the rumours that AMD has secured design wins in each major "next-Gen" console. Consoles are going to use APUs, or in the very least, the GPU portion of AMD's APU design, so it made sense that perhaps there was a rush to get that type of chip up and running.
Previously, there wasn't plans for so many FX models, as they planned the first 32nm process update to go to the APUs, but now that the APUs are already out in full force, Bulldozer gets the stepping instead, allowing them to push more models forward, and hence this whole thread in the first place.
I'm eager for BD to come out, because I wanna know if I'm right.
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