Quote Originally Posted by Dimitriman View Post
Are there any AMD labs in India? :P

But seriously I understand what JF-AMD means, working as an accountant there are some levels of information you simply must track from beginning to end and I can't imagine how a few working samples of BD would go unaccounted or distributed without extensive knowledge about it. Now the question is whether the decision to distribute/test these samples elsewhere of AMD labs is always known to JF.

As he claimed, the AMD labs where BD are kept so far stand out of his jurisdiction so perhaps there has been internal decisions to test these samples outside? Therefore putting an actual explanation to the question: do you work with engineers/labs in India in any form?
Yes, we have development in India, they're awesome folks, I think they did a lot of the Istanbul work, very solid team. But, I am pretty sure that first silicon does not land there, as they are a design organization as I understand it. First silicon goes to test organizations.

The issue is that if we were going to "leak" parts out, it would actually be my call as the director of marketing. And I can tell you that I wouldn't approve that. Especially early Bulldozer silicon. Trust me, the first rev is always pretty rough relative to the final (except Istanbul where first silicon was final silicon.)