We aren’t quite calling this the turnaround of the decade just yet, but with just six months to go until 2010, AMD is doing its best to make a late run for said crown. In years past, Advanced Micro Devices had become notorious for delaying products. Now, they’re doing their best to right the ship by unveiling a product’s availability some five months ahead of schedule. In CPU years, five months is an eternity. The new six-core AMD Opteron (codenamed “Istanbul”) is shipping out to OEM customers today, and