Is AMD Puma All Right, Or Not?
While AMD has a very tough time on the desktop processors market, things don't look great for them on the mobile market either, but their upcoming Puma platform may be a success... if they manage to make things right, and especially avoid delays and bugs. I don't want to estimate anything based on recent happenings, but it seems some analysts are thinking the wrong way, because there are rumors about potential problems of this future mobile platform from AMD...
Doug Freeman, American Technology Analyst, said that "Our channel checks suggest AMD’s Puma platform for notebooks may have a technical glitch. […] We believe the mere potential for a problem with Puma, even if a fix is in the works and the platform is scheduled for an ‘on-time’ launch, will likely have an impact on initial volumes for the [refresh of the notebook product line for the spring]." Obviously, Freeman didn't say anything specific, so this isn't more than just a hoax to me.
Maybe he didn't found out yet that AMD's Griffin processor, the one included in the Puma platform, is immune to the TLB bug found in Phenoms, but let's leave him with his own issues and see what AMD had to say about this...
According to AMD, everything's just fine. “We remain on track for AMD’s commitments from AMD’s financial analyst day and we are looking forward to a record number of notebook platform offerings from all key OEM customers in Q2.”, said their spokesperson Suzy Pruitt. Well, if not even AMD knows about problems of their Puma platform... let's hope Freeman's crystal globe is wrong and everything will work as planned.
We'll get back to Puma as soon as new information becomes available, because this platform looks like an interesting choice for laptops that are going to be available in the not-so-far future...
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