Prentice Bisbal wrote:
Sounds like Intel has something to hide.
Nope. They just track people who talk badly about Intel and then they send around the black helicopters and the little blue men and the silver suit dudes will come talk to you :) Actually this makes perfect sense for all chip manufacturers. The reason is that early numbers may or may not be indicative of final performance. If an early number sneaks out and the final performance is less. then people will howl, "Why did you kill performance? You are so evil? I hate you!" If performance is better than perhaps you've turned people off of your new fancy product, "Well blank-blank wasn't smart enough to give out early numbers, especially to me, so I don't ever want to talk to them again. They're evil!" It's indeed a difficult game to play. You want to develop lust for your product (Apple is the master of this) but you don't want to kill popularity for it in either direction. So it makes perfect sense for companies not to release anything early. It doesn't mean they have anything to hide. It means they are trying to build good momentum for their products. Just relax and hang in there. When Intel announces Nehalem I'm sure they will release benchmarks. The same is true for AMD when they announce Shanghai. It's all part of the fun :) Jeff _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf