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> than it being a decision made out of caution to save face for AMD if the results are incorrect. It's not about "saving face" for anyone, it's about the possi
by creato 7y ago
> than it being a decision made out of caution to save face for AMD if the results are incorrect.
It's not about "saving face" for anyone, it's about the possibility of bug reports that need to be investigated, and possibly new code paths need to be added if a fix is necessary.
> and then suddenly more than halved the price of everything the moment there was competition.
This would have happened regardless of how much or little their products improved in the prior years. The price is what enough people are willing to pay, and that goes down if there's an alternative.
- Maxious 7y agoeg. "AMD shipped Ryzen 3000 with a serious microcode bug in its random number generator." "Windows users couldn't successfully launch Destiny 2, and Linux users in many cases couldn't even get their system to boot." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/how-a-months-old-amd-microcode-bug-destroyed-my-weekend/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/how-a-months-old-amd...
- djmips 7y agoThe article currently states the Destiny 2 issue was unrelated to the bug in the random number generator.