AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million 149
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."
noob (Score:1, Funny)
NO, you stupid AMD, don't do that...
It was a rounding error (Score:5, Funny)
The FPU in these chips rounds 1.2 billion up to 2.0 billion.
Re:LOL (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.
Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)
Not really.
Marketeer: How many transistors in the new chip?
Engineer: We're up over a billion now.
Marketeer: Ok, thanks. 2 billion.
Re:Why? (Score:5, 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.
Re:LOL (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.
Re:Why? (Score:5, 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!"
Re:Class action lawsuit please (Score:5, 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.
Re:It was a rounding error (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There's a new update (Score:3, Funny)
and the other 800,000,000 are looking for employment elsewhere ?
Re:There's a new update (Score:5, Funny)
and the other 800,000,000 are looking for employment elsewhere ?
No, they're just Occupying space.
Re:Why? (Score:4, 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.