Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Dan3]

Re: This is another testing issue, or test escape.

The curious thing is that, as an in-order processor, I would have thought that Itanium would have been more straightforward to test. Intel spent plenty of time working to validate the chip, and Intel certainly has many, many, many, excellent engineers, so how the heck did this happen? And I don't mean that as a slight against anyone at Intel, it's just very surprising and quite unsettling. I mean, if it could happen with Itanium, it can probably happen with anything.

Perhaps the unusual nature of the Itanium instruction set will take time to learn how to properly test. It still seems like it shouldn't have been such a problem.