You do realize that if you can't prove he lied that would be slanderous. I have no idea when the problem cropped up with the low-end cards, but it seemed like it was after he said that.
He claimed the top-to-bottom launch back in early April:
The knowing misdirection
With fewer than six weeks to go before the launch, he would have known exactly which products were ready to go and which were still having problems. He surely knew that 65-nm R600 wouldn't be ready in May. Yet he still said:
"But if you think about it, looking at where the market is at, the volumes are going to be in the RV610 and RV630, so it makes sense for us to do a
one time launch of the entire family of DX10 enabled products".
In that statement he didn't exactly lie. He left himself some wiggle room by not categorically stating that R600 would be a hard launch. But then a week later during the Q1 CC he turned it into a
blatant lie:
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Gurinder Kalra - Bear Stearns
Would you expect to have substantive quantities of product available at the launch?
Henri P. Richard
Absolutely. We do not do soft launches.
Gurinder Kalra - Bear Stearns
Thank you.
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By then all the execs CERTAINLY knew that 65-nm R600 wasn't ready. Of course neither Hector nor Dirk stepped in to clarify Henri's statement, so they're just as culpable as he is. As it turned out, the 65-nm R600 products were paper launched a month later.
I'm sorry you feel betrayed or lied to but maybe you shouldn't take this so seriously.
I don't feel betrayed, I've just never cared much for Henri. I've always felt that his responses to interview questions were slick and evasive. I guess that's the fine art of a dyed-in-the-wool salesman whose secondary role is to keep the stock price shored up. AMD could use a more direct salesman. IMO he's one of the reasons the company is floundering today. Slickness doesn't foster customer loyalty.
In his defense, perhaps they weren't as hands-on with the ATi division as they could have been. ATi has a reputation for bad launches while AMD doesn't. (Brisbane was overseas first)
Maybe a few heads rolled because of this. I don't know but again I was just reporting the news and am not really that concerned.
The Barcelona story will advance next week. There have been reports of several manufs having RV630/610 chips for Computex also.
Maybe we'll even see more of Griffin. They do have prototype boxes. I would like to see how many movies can play on battery.
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