- AMD's Barcelona benchmarks: Omissions and disclosure matterPosted by George Ou in Real World IT on Sep 14, 2007 4:27 AM Subscribe Alerts92 comments

- [Update 9/16/2007 - After doing a little more digging, it appears that SPEC's rules require the clear statement of a basis of comparison www.spec.org/fairuse.html rule 3.b. Without a basis of...[Read the rest]
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- Beyond AMD's Barcelona hype - the fine print
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- Some vacation. A week's worth of RSS feeds to read in a day. A lot of it about servers, AMD and Intel.
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- AMD answers to controversial use of retired benchmarks in China
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- Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Feb 28, 2007 5:27 PM
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