Re: AMD Phenom L3 cache bug explained

Robert Myers wrote:
> You mean AMD is competing on price.  That's not good for anyone.
> Commodities are sold on price and commodity markets are not known for
> technological innovation.

It's resulted in a huge expansion of the PC market. It's grown to levels 
never seen before. Typically there's 100 million PCs sold in a year, 
this year it may hit 200 million. So the effect is exactly what's 
needed, PC's are becoming more affordable. I've never seen laptops as 
cheap as they are nowadays.

> I'll give AMD credit.  I expected AMD to be headed out to sea on a rip-
> current by now.  It's not completely clear that it's not, but it's
> still above water (barely).  It's a hole in the ocean into which you
> (or people with more money than they know what to do with) pour
> capital.  Would AMD have that money if Intel weren't so heavily
> invested in Israel?

If you're talking about Abu Dhabi's Mubadalla investment in AMD, you can 
call it an Arab vs. Israeli thing. Both Mubadalla and AMD are sponsors 
of the Ferrari F1 team. So I think it has more to do with Formula 1 
business connections.

> As to AMD's cute little "bug," I suppose that everyone here knows that
> AMD published benchmark results with the bux-fix turned off, so the
> chip that actually works is significantly slower than advertised.


The bug only shows up under virtualization, no other time.

	Yousuf Khan