Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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http://www.crn.com.au/News/66665,amds-rivas-on-barcelona-bugs-channel-impact.aspx

more Rivas on the debaucle.

On the workaround on the Opterons, the Tech Report source talks about a 10 percent to 20 percent performance hit. Is that true, is that something you can address?

Yes, five to 20 percent is something we did see on our fix, which is unacceptable for the server space. It depends on the application. In some workloads you will only see 5 percent, in some 20. And then you talk to each customer individually and you give them the option to go forward or not, and in some cases a few customers have chosen to go forward, you know, even with the degradation

I wouldn't buy a pencil from this guy... and who's selling a degraded opteron?? the adage there's a sucker born every five minutes fits here.