Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[pgerassi]

Elmer:

Only server customers validate for themselves, not OEMs. It takes about a year to go through that. They didn't get 45nm samples for about a year. They got some last month and will validate operation and perform benchmarks in their environments with their loads and configurations.

Remember that the P3-1.13 went through OEM validation and such. A single customer built a Linux kernel and it crashed. After many got involved, it was found that a simple default kernel compile crashed at 1.13GHz and worked at 1GHz. That is why, server cstomers do their own validations. No OEM tests in their environment, their loads and their configurations.

Pete