Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
What makes you think they will "show off" the current state of Bulldozer design,the one chip that will be the bread and butter when it comes to revenue and competing with intel for the next couple of years?
Running a taskmaster demo gives away nothing to the competition, it just lets investors and interested parties know that schedules are not slipping.

Why do you think they "showed off" the current state of the Barcelona design at the end of 2006?

It was a bit disappointing that no analyst asked, nor did Dirk volunteer, anything about BD on the recent CC. Especially in context of (the admittedly much simpler) llano sampling, the silence around BD was unfortunate.