The 8 core Nehalem seems to be a megamacholomaniamonolitic [holy Christ I love this new word] die. larger still as Dunnington (700 mm2 ?) More for bragging rights purpose as for profitability, considering that it will be rather TDP limited.

A few years ago it was fashionable to bash Intel's Pentium 4 as a braindead architecture... It is now trendy to bash AMD... Nuances, who needs them when you can make a sensational headline?

The increase in outsourcing could allow AMD to sell off some of its manufacturing equipment and help lower the company's operating costs, noted sources at AMD's partners... AMD had not responded for comment at the time of publication.

At this point, one has to question if the firings are the right thing to do. Mario was brought in in early 2007, maybe late 2006, far too late to have been responsible for Fusion or Barcelona, and likely not responsible for Bulldozer's problems either.