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by wtallis
2506 days ago
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The Barcelona chips initially had a pretty nasty bug in the TLB. AMD stopped shipments for about 5 months so they could put out a new stepping with the bug fixed. The Istanbul chips arrived a few months after Intel's Nehalem, which is where Intel caught up with features like the on-die memory controller and started roughly a decade of unchallenged performance lead. |
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