Quote Originally Posted by Drwho? View Post
1) Don't forget your NDA.
What NDA you are talking about? Intel are letting people to publish Nehalem results. A month ago Anadtech published a lot of results:http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=3326&p=2
I wonder if they were under NDA too.

2) This is an old silicon.
Cool, show us the new one.

Thanks for not informing our competitors, you are hurting us when you publish bench results, you all need to understand that.
Your competitor is well informed about your upcoming Nehalem CPUs a long time ago. Even if they had no sources to know the results, they could estimate the performance of Nehalem much better then most of us here(some XS members were very accurate in their predictions about Nehalem).

About the "hurting" part, the results can only hurt your competitor more since it has nothing to compete against Nehalem.

I know it is fun to publish your proto numbers, just remember that you are as well hurting the competitiveness of my employer.
In the past 3 years your employer used to publish lots of results of their upcoming products. If you haven't forgot, there were thousands of Conroe ES's floating around months before it was officially released, so your competitor was very well informed. Pity, they were unable to do anything, just like they are unable to do anything about Nehalem now.

I am speaking for myself only here, not for my employer here.
Nope, you were speaking about how the pre-release informations are going to hurt your employer.

It makes my job very hard , when my competitor can know what I am planning, before it is even finish.
Well, we are not your competitor, we are your customers. Your competitor have an informations from insiders, just like you have.

There are no personal archivement to release confidential information, except taking the risk to be in trouble.
Well, there are. Those who are publishing results and informations of unreleased products have high reputation here on XS. In that regard we must give a credit to JC.

Just think about it as "you work on something very cool, a good cake for your Daughter birth day, but a dude show the picture of the cake to your daughter before the D day." That kind of suck, isn't it?
Oh. What can you say about Intel publishing results of unreleased Yorkfield/Wolfdale CPUs, and it's unavailability months after it is being released. Only QX9650 were available, which are affordable for a very few rich customers. It is like a lot of kids watching other kid eating an ice-cream. That kind of sucks more, isn't it?