How to fix AMD

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What happend?
I was sleeping in class again...

AMD yanked the 2.4Ghz version of the Phenom.
The 2.3Ghz version is now the fastest they are going to deliver initially.

Basically, corruption in the L3 cache as you increase the clock speeds.

AMD said it was rare, but I suspect it's fairly common.

I was reading one reviewer who went to AMD's press show were the press was allowed to test the devices, apparently they were not allowed to OC any of the computers they had for running their tests.
They only Computer they could OC was a specially designated one, and on that one they were not allowed to have any Benchmarking software. Probably since that could lead to stability issues.

THG review is an example - There are 0 OC benchmarks.
However, the poster claimed they were able to OC stable at 3.0Ghz.
How can you make that claim w/o running software?
I guess he meant it booted :>>>

A few of the sites actually did try to OC their test boxes despite being told not to and claimed serious boot failure at much lower speeds than that and the inability of the benchmark software to run after even moderate OCs.

It looks like whoever is getting the first revisions of the Phenoms are going to have some serious issues with stability.

I heard someplace that AMD is going to patch some of the existing BIOS machines to simply disable L3 cache to correct the stability issues.
However, this is going to hurt performance by another 10%.

AMD hopes to have the L3 cache bug fixed in the next stepping, but we will have to wait to see if they can. Apparently this bug is why they kept lowering the speeds at which they were going to ship. They kept lowering the clocks until they found a speed that did not break L3.

They thought they were good at 2.4Ghz, but apparently not.
If you buy a 2.3Ghz, cross your fingers that yet another drop of 100mhz will finally solve the problem.

Maybe they could sell them door to door...
Get walking AMD employees.

Hold on, and cater more to gaming market with quad fire and Fusion technologies. AMD does not have the cash to beat Intel at Intel's game so they have to do different things to win market share.

That would be a good start, as well as hiring Lee Iacoca or someone of equal ability and vision. Then they might try not lying about the products and getting them out the door in sufficient quantity to sell. Phenom, as well as the HD 2900, was first supposed to come out last winter. That was when it should have been released. Were there problems with Phenom? Sure, but there still are, so what did waiting until now accomplish? Also, if the problems are not able to be fixed, then they should have abandoned the design and go to another rather than to lie about it and make a fool of themselves.

Another thing would be to ask some serious questions of themselves. What made them great, what did they come out with and how did they do it? If the 939 platform and chips were just an accident, then trying to dulicate the accident is a fool's game.

The QFX from last year had some real possibilities. Sure, it used too much power, put out too much heat, and wasn't able to be clocked very high. But we've seen the 5000+ Black Edition come out and it doesn't use too much power, doesn't put out too much heat, and from what I've read can be overclocked to 3.5 ghz. How well might the QFX done if the 5000+ BE had been adapted for the it? It might not have beaten Conroe, etc, but it sure would have been better than anything else they have done. Add with that the using DDR2 1066 ram, or DDR2 533 that was doubled, along with having all the ram addressed by both chips instead of splitting the ram with 2 slots per CPU and the platform may have really taken off. But we'll never know, because it wasn't done.

Just some thoughts.

Intel can bury AMD if it wants to, but it won't. It needs AMD to succeed so that it's own engineers continues to be innovative and to keep anti-trust suits away from its front door.

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ROFL!!

My cat just walked by and I thought of another way to fix AMD. It would be a real challenge for the Vet. You think Hector and company would go along with the idea?

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He he he!

Yup, that's right! They need extra napkins to wipe up the cash they are bleeding.

huh flaming again.

Well.... whoppers are supposed to be flame broiled.

AMD needs to skip straight to 32nm and drop Phenom and make Bulldozers within 3 months at 32nm.

If AMD could drop phenom,and move to 35nm fabrication,don't you think they would have done so already???I mean moving to a smaller fab process would mean smaller dies and higher wafer wields,which usualy also translate to higher clock speeds with lower temperatures.AMD is doing the best it can right now just trying to keep up with INTEL.Unfortunately,AMD has to do this in order to remain competitive with INTEL.But,AMD is,in all likely hood,working on a new design.One that will give them the edge they had awhile back with the introduction of the A64 cpu.Research and development cost money and take time.Bothe are something AMD is definately in short supply of.I believe that,given enough time,we'll see AMD pull another rabbit out of its hat.Besides,INTEL needs AMD to keep going.Without AMD producing x86 cpus,INTEL would have a monopoly,and the U.S. Gov't would be forced to step in and break the company up,as INTEL would have a monopoly in the cpu market.There are laws in place to prevent that for the sake of everyone.Could you imagine a world where INTEL was the only major supplier of cpus???We,as the consumer,would be forced to pay rediculous prices,and INTEL would be making HUGE money.

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AMD has a new correctional facility, but the problem is that most of the guards all wear "Intel forever" tattoos.