Quote Originally Posted by zir_blazer View Post
If I worked at some place and say in public a piece of data that is not protected under NDA (While I know all the other details I can NOT say to be able to reach and sustain such a conclusion), you are indeed going to believe me much, much more that some random guy with an Engineering Sample leaking results. I don't think he could have stated something without knowing if it was true or false as he knew all the details we didn't, this is why I don't get why he could have insisting soo firmly in the "IPC increases" thing if it wasn't the case. Maybe he was comparing a Bulldozer module against a single K10 Core, that is the only way you can make sense of it.
Also, he was quite accurate with the statement that Bulldozer wasn't compatible with the standard AM3 platform and at that moment I think most believed that it could been a drop-in replacement.
Now you're just making excuses for AMD.

I think it's more than likely that Jeff was simply fed inaccurate information from people higher up in the company... which leads me to believe one of two things. Either management is completely clueless about the architecture of Bulldozer and internal performance estimates, and due to incompetence would just tell Jeff what he wanted to hear to hurry his departure from said office. OR.... someone in management was FULLY aware of how Bulldozer would perform and perhaps didn't really like Jeff very much, thus giving him incorrect date AND putting office politics before the image of the company.

Neither are that far fetched. I personally think the latter is most likely considering I once was in that exact same situation a few years back.