AMD Alters "Official" Transistor Count Inside Bulldozer Microprocessors, But Some Secrets Remain - X-bit labs:
Advanced Micro Devices has notified some of the product review web-sites (1, 2) that it had provided misleading transistor count number for its highly-anticipated eight-core microprocessors based on the Bulldozer micro-architecture. The reasons why AMD originally reported a wrong number of elements for its chip are completely unclear.
Based on the latest information provided by the world's second largest developer of x86 microprocessors on the planet, the eight-core chip code named Orochi - which powers the latest FX "Zambezi" product for desktops as well as Opteron "Valencia" and "Interlagos" products for servers - contains 1.2 billion transistors, not 2.0 billion as reported previously when the central processing unit was formally introduced and majority of its details disclosed.
more @ X-bit Labs Anton Shilov
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