Quote Originally Posted by Shadov View Post
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...
im pretty sure you totally missed out on everything I said.... I don't think it was rocket science to figure out.

anyways I never once said I think it would be a good business move for AMD to release BD numbers ahead of release in fact if you would have read my whole post you would see that I said "I think they are keeping the lid on things because it the least risky move to make and gets consistent results. as much as we both wish they would leak results it's just not the way the industry works"

understand one thing. I could give a RATS @$$ how much money AMD make or what is good business practice for any of the large tech companies. I am a selfish person and I would like to see early BD numbers (as should any tech enthusiast) and really unless someone has shares in AMD I fail to see why they would care so much about there business practices... or "what is good for them as a company"

and honestly some of the points you have while being semi-true are way over done.

-The market would not even come close to stalling because of supply and demand. outside of the enthusiast community (less then 1% as I stated before) people don't know about or wait for new CPU's to be released. people and businesses need new computers and they buy them when they need them.

-Distributors will adjust their orders but ONLY really close to launch because again people are still buying things.... and AMD can always sell off the extras to OEM's and the like (which both AMD and Intel do all the time)

-leaking some numbers (does not need to be officially, could be via some Chinese Site) is not the same as announcing the pricing and marketing tactics of your new confirmed CPU

-Intel is unlikely to change prices until a few days of BD launch anyways otherwise they will loss money. which they will do regardless of an early leak or not.

and really man no need to be "I am so much smarter then everyone on the internetz...." I made no attack on you or pretty much anyone for that matter so no need to attempt at insulting my intelligence....