What to Expect From AMD at ISSCC 2011

[Shadov]

i dunno if it's that in particular.... considering the number of people with any sort of real knowledge about their product is under 1% of their consumer base. only a handful of people know that BD is more then a large tractor. hell even the majority of people who work at computer shops have no idea what BD is. if they leaked results it would make no noticeable impact on sales of current CPU's.

Ohh my, why do people write posts before they make the slightest effort to research how for example the IT sales channel works. I already have the picture (honey I cant come to bed, someone is wrong on the internet) in front of my eyes when im writing this post. But anyway, here it goes... Ill try to explain.

If AMD would give out early performance numbers the following things could potentially happen:

-market would expect new, better performing CPU's, while no actual product could be sold for quite some time stalling sales results

-distributors which sell e.g. AMD products would adjust their orders, since something new is about to come and they wouldn't want to end up with "old" stock in their warehouses

-sales channel would expect more support from AMD to move current products (since they shot themselves in the foot by announcing unavailable product and are not in the position of Intel to dictate rules)

-Intel would know exactly what to expect and how to structure price points to counter, which again would impact early reviews and market perception

Again do you think that AMD should give away early numbers behind their projects only because some people are curious and cant wait? In my opinion they should take their sweet time to make it as successful as possible...