Here's a little teaser....

[zakelwe]

there's a difference between qualifying a platform and shipping for revenue. that gap can be SIGNIFICANT in time. I'm not shocked at all. I know quite a few folks that are qualifying their products on pre-release intel silicon.
cheers,

dave

According to AMD in late June they would be shipping for revenue in August.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/V...118193,00.html

They then confirmed this on the very last day of August

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...831115038.html

So, assuming that those are all BA revision of B1 stepping as S7e9h3n says then I think it likely that Anand was also sent a BA rev step B1 so the values they got reflect the current production K10.

Your claim that Anand is not a big fish, so to speak, might be true. However they were big enough for AMD to send them a B2 as well. Would they send them a B2 and not a BA?... hmm, highly unlikely. More likely is that your field engineer does not know and has fed you duff information which you are trying to reconcile assuming he/she to be correct.

Regards

Andy