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To: tennmountainman
"Another door for AMD has just opened."

My prior snarky comment aside, this is not only right, but the timing is excellent for AMD as their new chip line has just rolled out.

8 posted on 06/26/2017 10:01:16 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: alancarp
More from the comments at Phoronix:

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06-25-2017, 01:49 PM

Originally posted by Chewi View Post
Heh, good to know that it's not just Ryzen that misbehaves these days.
intel regularly releases new microcode for their cpu's. over the years intel has had a lot more misbehaving silicon than amd.

Haswell & Broadwell:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8376/i...eep-broadwelly

Core2:
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...ore-cpu-errata

Another Skylake bug a year ago:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2016/01/11/intel-skylake-crash-erratum/1/
Last edited by torsionbar28; 06-25-2017, 02:20 PM.

12 posted on 06/26/2017 11:10:43 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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