Surprising to say the least.The Inquirer wrote:THE FIRST THING we did yesterday morning was to call AMD to ask it about its Opteron bugs, which may cause loss of data, it appears.
See AMD Opteron can cause incorrect results.
But, despite giving AMD a whole day to reply, the smaller chip firm has not yet replied.
The bugs can, as far as we can tell from the AMD document we pointed to earlier, give misleading results or even cause machines to hang.
A German site noted the problem last Saturday. When we called AMD first thing yesterday morning, we asked whether it would be producing a bug fix as a matter of urgency, and also asked it to explain what exactly the problems are.
As AMD is pushing the Opteron family as a mission critical platform, we are frankly amazed it hasn't responded yet, having had 36 hours to do so.
What can we expect? Another press release about how the Opteron is in the top 500 computers in the world? Frankly, it's not quite good enough.
Opteron Bug going unfixed?
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Opteron Bug going unfixed?
http://www.3dchips.net/content/story.php?id=3927
The Inquirer exceeds the Register in levels of sensationalistic journalism. The article published two days before does say that AMD plans to fix this: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16683 .
The Inquirer exceeds the Register in levels of sensationalistic journalism. The article published two days before does say that AMD plans to fix this: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16683 .
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