AMD presents "The Bulldozer Blog"

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Actually, I can't get into specifics, but I would be willing to bet that my processor actually performs better at half load than anyone here would ever expect.

Are you kidding? Maybe better than *I* would expect, but certainly worse than the biggest fans here are expecting.

Fooling someone will allow me to sell a processor. Telling the truth is what helps you sell millions of processors.

There is way too much on the line for me to be "fooling" people.

Oh, come now. The marketing gentleman doth protest too much.

Sure, sure, if you told outright lies, that would poison the market, though you might be able to fool millions before too much feedback was out there.

But lets not pretend that your goal is to present the unvarnished, objective truth of the tradeoffs between your product and the competition. Your employer would (rightfully) not be be pleased.

So it's a gray area called "marketing". That's fine. You're an advocate for your products. You seek to emphasize their strengths, and minimize their shortcomings.