Cores Duo/Solo: "My God, they're full of flaws"

Sure they are, like every single CPUs on earth, whether is Intel, AMD, IBM, Motorola etc

Not trying to start anything, but for fairness's sake, here's the errata sheets on the Athlons, 64's, X2's, Opterons, etc:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/co [...] /25759.pdf

Truth is that no one's perfect. Don't expect anyone to be.

Granted it has been a while since I checked on erratas in CPU's, but a few years ago, Intel's chips had far fewer than AMD's, and that margin percentage wise favored Intel's more, since Intel does and has had more transistor per chip than AMD. If that is a reference of good/bad chip, Intel wins hands down there.
Good thing they know of the errata's, so they can create workarounds so that they perform as intended anyways, of course this creates a performance hit to correct, but the CPU works.

Not how I recall it, especially since a "few years" put use right around A64/ Prescott time. At that point Intel had more erata, and more critical errors. Even so far back as the barton release, the only reason they had more uncorrected errata was due to the work Intel had done to correct errata on the northwood cores.

It may be exuberant optimism (I probably shouldn't steal that term from Bullshitter), but there is a new stepping of Yonah coming out. It's to be released with the T2700 2.33GHz Core Duo and will enable VT support. I would hope Intel decides to solve some of the errata using that stepping.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/ [...] re_duo_vt/