What a stupid mistake.

If they want to remain competitive in the high performance segment, hand crafting is critical, its not an option. Performance and power consumption is the major drawback in any automated layout design.

This is the reason why management should not always have the final say in technical decisions like this.

AMD will have a huge challenge when it comes to fabrication technology as we scale down to 22nm, they relies on other company to introduce smaller tech that are reliable enough and so far neither TMSC or Globalfoundaries have proven to be able to beat Intel when it comes to this. If they insist on creating designs that are significantly less than optimal, good luck trying to compete with Intel.

This post has been edited by Hornet: Oct 15 2011, 02:10 AM