AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer

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That slide only said "Single-threaded performance",not "Single-threaded performance per mm^2".

Erm, it's a sub-bullet of "Significant improvement in Performance/Watt/mm2"

You want to pretend that the sub-bullet is not related to its section title?

Well, in that case, there's no mention of "significant improvement" either.

BTW, why don't you write a letter to AMD, telling them that "Performance/Watt/mm2" does not make sense.

You realize AMD *has* estimations of single-thread IPC comparison for both integer and fp workloads at this point, relative to Phenom II, right?
As we're talking IPC, these don't depend on final clocks. So, if they wanted to, they could put out a bullet that says, for example: "estimated single-threaded IPC gains of 15-20% on integer workloads, compared to Ph-II."

Now JF will tell you that he "doesn't want his competitor to know this information" yet. Do you buy that? Both BD and SB core designs are long locked-down at this point.

I think he doesn't want YOU to know it, because the (largely client-oriented) fan base is going to be disappointed, and that would be a negative for AMD.