George Ou: 'Future is looking grim for AMD'

Poor AMD. There's been nothing but bad news for the beleaguered chipmaker as of late, with it's manufacturing woes, delays and public benchmark shaming. Even the company's silver bullet, the native quad-core Barcelona chip, had its face rubbed in the dirt by Intel's "V8" platform. Now even George Ou, who not too long ago wrote that Barcelona would "smash" competing Intel chips is changing his tune. "AMD needed to hit 2.5 GHz to reclaim the performance crown and release the product on time in July to give it some breathing room before Intel strikes back with its new 45nm 'Penryn' processor at the end of the year," Ou writes. "Now that it has been confirmed that AMD will miss their original Barcelona release date by at least 2 months and the best clock speed they can do is 2.0 GHz, the future is looking grim for AMD."

For more on Barcelona:
- check out Ou's latest column for ZDnet