Could you name some other times? The Inq sometimes gets fed duff information, but I don't think you can name a time when they just made stuff up. They publish their stuff in good faith.
They recently suggested that Intel stored uP configuration info for things like enabling HT in P4s in on-chip flash. This is an absurd suggestion they seemed to have pulled out of thin air. It is easy for Magee and most alledged contributors to publish in good faith simply out a high degree of technical ignorance.
I read the inquirer and theregister every day because they often catch whiff of interesting stuff before anyone else. But both are basically gossip sites with low batting averages and a propensity to focus on trivia at the expense of the important but not unexpected. These sites works best for readers with a sensitive BS detector backed by a lot of technical knowledge and industry experience.
I'm wondering why you don't want to believe that the Opteron was so thoroughly redesigned. It's not like they haven't had time!
I for one believe that Opteron was thoroughly redesigned - at the circuit level. It is a given when moving from bulk to SOI. The real issue is at what other levels it was redesigned. Much of the pipeline, functional unit characteristics, and basic floorplanning seems straight out of Athlon (which is quite reasonable, Athlon is a sound CPU design starved for bandwidth for most of its life. And AMD ain't exactly rolling in the dough enough to change things just for the sake of change) As far as HDL and logic re-use from Athlon we can only speculate.
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