Source.
They "forgot" to mention that the chip was overclocked and also forgot to replace the gamer type background with something more appropriate. All unintentional from a mindshare point of view, of course.
Source.Intel's recent demonstration of a 28-core processor running at 5GHz has certainly stirred the pot here at Computex, particularly because the presentation appeared to imply this would be a shipping chip with a 5.0GHz stock speed. Unfortunately, it turns out that Intel overclocked the 28-core processor to such an extreme that it required a one-horsepower industrial water chiller. That means it took an incredibly expensive (not to mention extreme) setup to pull off the demo. You definitely won't find this type of setup on a normal desktop PC.
We met with the company last night, and while Intel didn't provide many details, a company representative explained to us that "in the excitement of the moment," the company merely "forgot" to tell the crowd that it had overclocked the system. Intel also said it isn’t targeting the gaming crowd with the new chip.
Hi,Mindshare is a funny thing. People who don't have time to pay attention to everything that happened at Computex (can you fault them?) may have just read the headlines and, as another user posted, the Google search results worked out pretty well for Intel in this regard. Also, lots of people have no idea if there's a new manufacturing process on the horizon or not, nor do they know that Intel is having major difficulties with 10nm, so they don't know what's feasible or not, so again, can you fault them?
So, officially setting the record straight and relatively fast is sometimes the only way to achieve a similar effect to the initial one, otherwise many mainstream consumers would have just run with the incorrect perception - obviously they are not the target market for this CPU and system, but the main point of all this was mindshare - to instil in consumers the feel good sensation that they are buying their $200 CPU from the best company that can also make Bugattis.
It's got to be way over 500w
Linus had the 7980XE 4.9Ghz @ 1.35 and was pulling 845w from the wall. der8auer was pulling over 1000w with 5.5Ghz @ 1.45v.
Bottom line, Intel can do nothing right. Even if they try, they will be hunted, hounded, and stocked for every possible slight period.
I mean they where talking to professionals at a computer conference. It is not like the covered up anything.
https://images.anandtech.com/doci/12893/image591.jpg
You can clearly see from the test it says 28 cores, 56 threads @ wait for it...wait for it...wait for it...2.7 GHz.
https://images.anandtech.com/doci/12893/image591.jpg
And you would expect professionals to understand how computers work. Should they have said "overclocked", yes. But would it have stop the media from posting increasingly sloppy reporting then getting caught blaming the favorite whipping boy.
It is not their sloppy reporting of what they saw, it was intel from not sitting them down, treating them like 3 year olds, and spelling out everything they are seeing.
This is a computer chip, it makes your pc "go". 5 is the number after 4 and before 6. Ghz is a frequency. Frequency is...
Nope, intel scamming everyone has to be for sure.
Bold for emphasis.We were told that it was not intended to showcase the cooling on the stage due to time constraints, to which we responded that Intel’s implementation of pre-overclocked systems in the past are typically accompanied a discussion on the pre-overclocked nature and the cooling used in the past, yet this presentation did not have this.
That move was very stupid, it was obvious that the real truth will come out.It is beeter to show nothing, but "stupid Intel smart managament is much smarter lets go with burning 28 core server CPU."People are bashing Intel for lying, not for making good CPUs.
Intel makes good stuff, so does AMD and Nvidia. That doesn't excuse lying to people and using scam tactics to try to steal the spotlight, lie about specs, mislead the consumer while preaching transparency, pay devs to incorporate gimp features and so on.
Each one has done something like this, Intel and Nvidia just seem to do it more often.
Intel took a cobbled together CPU to Computex which will never be available then lied about it.
If they weren't trying to hide it they'd show off the chiller. Look what our awesome CPUs can do sub ambient! They are very impressive on air but look what we did!
I'd have thought that was really cool, now it's just sad.