Friday, December 2nd 2011
AMD Realizes That Bulldozer Has 800 Million LESS Transistors Than It Thought!
AMD's new flagship Bulldozer "FX" series of processors have turned out to be mediocre performers in almost every review and benchmark going, sometimes even getting bested by the existing Phenom II and certainly no match for their Intel competition. To add to this tale of fail, it now turns out that AMD didn't even know how many transistors they have! Anand Lal Shimpi of AnandTech received an email from AMD's PR department and this is the revelation he had to share with us:
Yes, something as basic as how many transistors are in their flagship product wasn't known about until months after the launch! This kind of info would be common knowledge within the company by the time the first tape-out is ready during the design and testing phase, so surely this cannot be and there must be some other explanation? If this is an attempt to make the processor look better by showing it "doing more with less", then this PR stunt has backfired spectacularly and it would have been better to have left the "error" as it was. Paradoxically, FX processors are a sales success and are flying off the shelves as we just reported, here.
Source:
AnandTech
This is a bit unusual. I got an email from AMD PR this week asking me to correct the Bulldozer transistor count in our Sandy Bridge E review. The incorrect number, provided to me (and other reviewers) by AMD PR around 3 months ago was 2 billion transistors. The actual transistor count for Bulldozer is apparently 1.2 billion transistors. I don't have an explanation as to why the original number was wrong, just that the new number has been triple checked by my contact and is indeed right. The total die area for a 4-module/8-core Bulldozer remains correct at 315 mm².
142 Comments on AMD Realizes That Bulldozer Has 800 Million LESS Transistors Than It Thought!
Meh.. :banghead:
So that's what the keystone cops are doing now.....building cpus.
Bulldozer...the delorean of the cpu world.
What make this even more laughable is the fact that AMD did not even know how many transistors were on the CPU to start with . HEY AMD WAKE UP !!! :twitch::twitch:
The fanboyism makes me laugh
In the mid and low end AMD is quite competitive. Even with bulldozer based servers AMD is quite competitive.
Also intel has nothing to compete against llano, and barely can compete against zacate
I'm not even mentioning discrete GPUs... and of course, PRICE
All this time all this speculation all this anticipation and what did you get ? :nutkick: That is what it would seem like NO ? .
It's a fairly common mix up when writing on the fly as often people "think" the words out loud rather than think through each letter that they are typing.
Or the user could be dyslexic and easily muddle up similar sounding words even though they understand the individual meanings of each.
Shouldn't be so quick to judge : ]
Anyhow, this is not the best place to discuss this, so I shouldn't have started.