What do you mean? If amd's competitors are able to spy on their r&d process, then keeping specs secret wouldn't do anything to keep the competitors in the dark until launch day.
May or may not but this episode of Star Trek did have a Klingon saboteur/spy which looked human:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_With_Tribbles
I think nVidia's business model is very similar to the Kingon Empire!
is that a laptop board? doesn't really look like it.
Its a little worrying that they are showing off the laptop parts. Normally they release the high end desktop parts first and then move onto the low power ones but with the rumours of problems in HK 28nm and not in the low power variant does that mean only the laptop chips will be coming out soon?
I think AMD's GPU management really knows what it's doing unlike their CPU management team:
- No specs keeps the competitor in the dark until launch date
- No specs allows the company to make any small adjustments to clock speeds or specs before launch, yet doesn't allow the chance to disappoint the consumer since nothing is really known
- No gimmicky overclocking events
- No hype (No marketing slogans of Ultra-Mega-awesome, no empty promises of providing "ultimate performance at every price level", etc.)
- No discussion of any release dates and then missing that timeline. It's done when it's ready philosophy (not ya ya ya it will launch in 60-90 days )
- No leaked pricing (keeps the competitor in the dark), and let's current product sell
I like the way AMD's GPU division is run. I hope they launch by Q4 2011 or at most Q1 2012 :thumbsup:
Maybe ask TSMC but I don't think AMD has to lie to us I mean nVidia has outright said Q1 2012 for 28nm parts so it's not like AMD needs to release something this year.Someone has to say it so here goes... devils advocate time.
Is there any proof other than "AMD says" that this is really a 28nm chip or just a 40nm current gen chip they're running?
Maybe ask TSMC but I don't think AMD has to lie to us I mean nVidia has outright said Q1 2012 for 28nm parts so it's not like AMD needs to release something this year.