Are phenom's getting a bad rap?

[ryboto]

Well, it's speculation on both our parts, but I always found it interesting that once ATI was purchased and then forced to divide their attention, suddenly we saw nothing but R600 delays which has now set their entire development cycle off.

The delays were because it was difficult to manufacture...still an ATI issue. The R600 would have gone through these issues regardless. AMD wasn't the ones manufacturing, and they still don't, TSMC makes all the ATI video chipsets. ATI wasn't forced to divide attentions, the R600 had already been developed, and was in production. It was the production that was the issue. It was a complex design, 512mbit bus? The process was complex and expensive to make the boards.