AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer

[terrace215]

Ssssshhhhhh! Don't tell terrace. He'll say "Single-threaded performance will have significant improvement"

I'd be more likely to point out that an increase in perf/W/mm^2 , be it single-thread or throughput is more interesting to AMD & its investors than it is to any potential users / customers.

Particularly when it coincides with a process shrink.

Make the same claim on a slide *without* the mm^2 part, and remove the item on your other slide that talks about minimizing single-threaded losses, and we'll talk again.

(Sometimes, engineering reveals things in their presentations that marketing can't fully spin.)