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AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million

Posted by timothy on from the but-who's-counting-is-the-actual-question dept.

Robadob writes "It has come to light that AMD PR had originally reported that the new Bulldozer processor's transistor count was 2 billion. AMD PR are now asking reviewers to correct this count to 1.2 billion from the original amount they provided ~3 months ago."

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  1. noob by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    NO, you stupid AMD, don't do that...

  2. It was a rounding error by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The FPU in these chips rounds 1.2 billion up to 2.0 billion.

    1. Re:It was a rounding error by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 5, Funny

      We are Pentium of Borg. Division is futile, you will be approximated!

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  3. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't this better? Doesn't this mean that the processor is smaller and more efficient?

    Transistors are HUGE!!! You ever see a transistor radio?

    I guess I just don't understand hardware. It just doesn't make sense to me. How can these fucking weird-ass CYLINDERS that are painted in stripes, plus weird flat "wires" on a green piece of whatever-the-fuck, actually do something? It makes NO SENSE.

  4. Re:Why? by msauve · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It seems bafflingly weird that PR would provide a number so grossly wrong"

    Not really.

    Marketeer: How many transistors in the new chip?
    Engineer: We're up over a billion now.
    Marketeer: Ok, thanks. 2 billion.

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  5. Re:Why? by mobby_6kl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or maybe 2B is what Bulldozer actually has, but their new PR team came up with the idea: claim it only has 1.2B transistors, so even though it still sucks, at least it doesn't need 2 billion transistors to do it.

  6. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Water, fire, air and dirt
    Fucking magnets, how do they work?
    And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist
    Y’all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed.

  7. Re:Why? by poity · · Score: 4, Funny

    PR department playing telephone
    First person: "We have 1.2 billion transistors"
    Next person: "Wow, that's about 1 and a quarter billion transistors!"
    Next person: "Wait, 1 and quarter billion transistors? That's almost 1.5 billion!"
    Next person: "Holy shit, 1.5 billion transistors? That's nearly 2 billion!"

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  8. Re:Class action lawsuit please by RobinEggs · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you bought a V10 car and it turned out to have a 4 cylinder, you'd be upset. No?

    Yeah, if it turned out it couldn't climb hills and had a 0 - 60 time of 17.1 seconds. If it performed like I wanted and happened to have only 4 cylinders I wouldn't care. Unless one of my primary 'needs' was for everyone to know I had a big-ass 'engine', if you know what I mean.

    Put more directly, benchmarks and statistics are just dick measuring without some context.

  9. Re:There's a new update by rust627 · · Score: 3, Funny

    and the other 800,000,000 are looking for employment elsewhere ?

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  10. Re:There's a new update by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 4, Funny

    and the other 800,000,000 are looking for employment elsewhere ?

    No, they're just Occupying space.

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  11. Re:Why? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's like broadband, you get "up to" 2 billion transistors, or more precisely any number of transistors between 0 and 2,000,000,000.

    I offered to pay them "up to 2 billion Euros" for one but they declined.

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