Firstly Anand, I agree that it's absolutely great to see your blog happening again, it's been one of my favourite parts of AT!
On Barcelona, I wonder if you are planning either an update or another article on benchmarking it. One of my concerns is based on Kris Kubicki's http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8804">blog...
In it, he stated that the stepping that was reviewed was the B1 stepping and not the BA stepping listed in the http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white...">errata sheet.
He also says that the BA stepping (the actual shipping stepping) is 5%+ faster across the board because of an errata fix.
While I realise that this was completely out of your control, could you let us know if you plan on updating the review?
Also, could you let us know which steppings you are reviewing in your write-ups?
Many continued thanks for being our "voice" in hardware...
I would love to know too. I would also love to hear your best guess, Anand, why AMD is being so hush hush over this launch.
My best guess is that their goal was to release at faster clock speeds, yet they couldn't. Are they waiting for the processors to ramp up? It almost seems like their Marketing team is crying over the fact that their only retail Barc right now is 1.9 Ghz.
I'm a little curious about those supervised benchmarks.
Does an Intel or AMD company rep literally sit next to you and watch you like a hawk? Or is it more a case of you simply doing the benchmarks on their company premises (i.e., you're not permitted to take the unreleased chip back home to the AT labs)?
Is it to keep the media from taking close-up pictures of the technology / finding out and then publishing details that might be useful to the competition? To prevent reviewers from running programs or using features that the company knows are not yet stable? etc.
Anyways, thanks for providing us with behind the scenes details on IDF.
I'm so glad that you're blogging again. I went through withdrawal symptoms multiple times. I just noticed on the sidebar and I almost couldn't believe my eyes. Don't ever abandon us again pleeeeease? :D
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Viditor - Monday, October 1, 2007 - link
Firstly Anand, I agree that it's absolutely great to see your blog happening again, it's been one of my favourite parts of AT!On Barcelona, I wonder if you are planning either an update or another article on benchmarking it. One of my concerns is based on Kris Kubicki's http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8804">blog...
In it, he stated that the stepping that was reviewed was the B1 stepping and not the BA stepping listed in the http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white...">errata sheet.
He also says that the BA stepping (the actual shipping stepping) is 5%+ faster across the board because of an errata fix.
While I realise that this was completely out of your control, could you let us know if you plan on updating the review?
Also, could you let us know which steppings you are reviewing in your write-ups?
Many continued thanks for being our "voice" in hardware...
Regs - Monday, October 8, 2007 - link
I would love to know too. I would also love to hear your best guess, Anand, why AMD is being so hush hush over this launch.My best guess is that their goal was to release at faster clock speeds, yet they couldn't. Are they waiting for the processors to ramp up? It almost seems like their Marketing team is crying over the fact that their only retail Barc right now is 1.9 Ghz.
AmberClad - Monday, October 1, 2007 - link
I'm a little curious about those supervised benchmarks.Does an Intel or AMD company rep literally sit next to you and watch you like a hawk? Or is it more a case of you simply doing the benchmarks on their company premises (i.e., you're not permitted to take the unreleased chip back home to the AT labs)?
Is it to keep the media from taking close-up pictures of the technology / finding out and then publishing details that might be useful to the competition? To prevent reviewers from running programs or using features that the company knows are not yet stable? etc.
Anyways, thanks for providing us with behind the scenes details on IDF.
slashbinslashbash - Thursday, September 27, 2007 - link
I'm so glad that you're blogging again. I went through withdrawal symptoms multiple times. I just noticed on the sidebar and I almost couldn't believe my eyes. Don't ever abandon us again pleeeeease? :D