Here's a little teaser....

[dave_graham]

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

well, they're shipping for revenue (according to them) but not to the channel. this is for direct buy enterprise. they didn't make the august rev. date but they will make Q3.

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.

i still maintiain that's not the case. but, we'll see. between S7 and I we should be able to validate those #s...which is the sign of good science anyway.

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

anand IS a big fish in the prosumer market but that's about where it ends. they DID send him B2 procs....those 2.5ghz ones with the Sharpie writing on the top . that's the coup d'etat in the whole deal...they're showing that:
a.) they CAN scale quickly to higher speeds
b.) that Barcelona really has a lot more breathing room than was previously thought.

again, it's the double-edged sword i talked about in earlier posts....

as for my FAE, well, he's been @ AMD for a LONG time and has no compunctions whatsoever in telling me what parts of AMD function well and those which don't. that's the screening question for finding out if someone's telling the truth or not. And, he comes highly recommended from several of my other AMD collateral in the area (folks at the Boston Design Center) as being a no-holds-barred kinda guy....

cheers,

dave