AMD Director of Worldwide Channel Development
Chips Ahoy? That could be AMD Director of Worldwide Channel Development Gary Bixler captain's cry as he looks forward to putting the Barcelona chip delay behind him and his indefatigable company.
No doubt Bixler is pained by the chip level bug or errata that has delayed the shipment of the quad-core Opteron until sometime in Q1 2008. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD had promised that Barcelona would be widely available by the end of the year.
It makes for an unhappy new year for AMD and system builders who were looking forward to shipping quad-core Opteron systems. It is Bixler who will have to deal with the fallout from system builders. The question that hovers over AMD: can Bixler be the steady hand that leads AMD system builders from despair to the promised land?
