Re: Clarifications about AMD TLB L3 bug

nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>Whatever. Such recalls do happen. It's a seruoius blow to AMD (as it
delays 
>>their more competitive products and causes the to loose Christmast
season), 
> 
> 
> The affected products are high end server CPUs. Ever heard of a
> regular home user Joe 6pack running virtualization stuff???<grin/>
> Sales thereof may be affected by the holiday season only in a negative
> way.  Buying new servers is probably not the first priority of execs
> during these days.  Ever heard of anyone getting a server as
> Xmas/Hanukka/New Year/whatever present?

On the other end the year end is often fiscal year end and money assigned
to 
be spend but not spent yet should finally. Or that old stupid fallacious 
logic could fire: you didn't spend the money this year so you don't need
it, 
so you won't get'em next year.

rgds
\SK