Quote Originally Posted by terrace215 View Post
Running a taskmaster demo gives away nothing to the competition, it just lets investors and interested parties know that schedules are not slipping.

Why do you think they "showed off" the current state of the Barcelona design at the end of 2006?

It was a bit disappointing that no analyst asked, nor did Dirk volunteer, anything about BD on the recent CC. Especially in context of (the admittedly much simpler) llano sampling, the silence around BD was unfortunate.
Different circumstances back in the day of Barcelona demo(first native QC x86 chip,first AMD's QC chip,new uarchitecture,unnoticed erratum at the time of demo,marketing mistake etc.). There are many reasons why they shouldn't have demoed the chip back then the way they did but it's all the past tense now. They sure won't rush ahead of themselves this time and do the same thing,will they? Even more so when you consider what radical changes to the design AMD made(Design was actually 6+ years in development by now,so better believe it is where they want it to be perf. wise).