Barthos Computers Blog

What a sobering year it’s been for AMD. Its ray of hope, the Phenom processor with its four CPU cores, dynamic speed and power management and shared L3 cache, was not only released far too late, it also nearly became a flop despite its outstanding architecture. For one thing, AMD is still unable to ship CPUs running at more than 2.4 GHz. Also, the CPU maker had to completely halt shipments of Opteron processors based on the same core, since a bug in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB, also known as Erratum 298) for the L3 cache could cause data corruption under some circumstances. While this isn’t overly critical for home users, such an error or even the risk of it occurring are completely unacceptable in the business segment - and it proved to be nothing short of a fiasco for AMD.

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