seedload wrote:
Or, he figured out it can't work, left the company, and is keeping quiet about his opinion out of respect to Park and the legacy of Bussard.
Too simple?
Given:
"Nuanced"
An attempt to publicly debate possible failure modes (w/Art)
An experimentalist replacing a theorist
Delivery dates continuing to retreat into the future.
Consider:
If Intel announced its nextgen 20nm prototype was getting "nuanced" results, its engineers debated physics of electron flow through thin wires on public forums, the head of engineering leaves, and the delivery dates for 20nm processors retreated by 12 months, I don't think there would be many claiming that Intel has a super secret weapon that it's going to unleash on AMD and that it's using the rest as cover.
I mean, there'd be some, but there are ALWAYS some.
Seems the most logical conclusion is that it doesn't work, and they don't know why.
YMMV,
-Dave