Guys,...
Bulldozer is not what was expected from it, just like the P4 and to some extent Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge is just plainly a better CPU.
No company is infallible, certainly not Intel so don't pretend they are. Everyone is entitled to make mistakes here and there as long as they put those mistakes right in the end.
Piledriver uses a lot less power than Bulldozer, that much is already obvious, that's also a good indication it will run much cooler, performance is also up, it might not be much higher than Thuban but its moving forward non the less, all that's progress no mater what way you chose to look at it.
Also Bulldozer is not a bad chip, it can beat a more expensive 2600K in some aspects, it just needs more work, AMD have about 2% of Intel's revenue, its hellish impressive what they can do with that tiny revenue, don't you think?
And last, your getting way ahead of yourselves, it has not been properly tested yet, sh#t the FX-8350 has not been tested at all yet....