Quote Originally Posted by Lightman View Post
The difference is, AMD has no competing parts for that market segment from own camp, contrary to Zambezi which will compete with Intel solutions as well as AMD's own lower grade solutions for desktop market.
That's why AMD let Brazos platform to be reviewed ahead of market availability.
I did acknowledge that two posts above the one you quoted.

Quote Originally Posted by generics_user View Post
brazos is OEM only, they don't ship the chips directly to end-users and they can't disturb their own sales with it because they aren't present in that market
That's a solid logic I can't argue with.

But in the end, what effectively happened is, we got perf numbers before launch, since as far as I understand AMD still keeps their hand on the launch date, which is tomorrow, or so I heard. If it was up to the OEMs we'd surely see some products launch before Xmas and some reviews, right?

Makes me wonder why Intel let some benchamrks before launch be done and canibalize (or not?) it's own sales...