@Beardyman
A heavily overclocked K10 with a heaviy overclocked NB speed beats a stock (?) Yorkfield on an useless and almost obsolete 3D benchmark? and there was different software involved, wow

btw the stock lost 4% yesterday (nasdaq 0.66%). I wonder if that's the reason or if it's just the overall trend and it may get even worse..

Anyway I don't understand the situation. No confirmation by any other news sites. Is it even true? No Barcelona for major OEMs and most of server vendors who want to be sure not to have crashing systems? But desktop gets "faulty" phenoms which may crash when doing e.g. virtualization? (as mentioned in the article..)

doublezero, your post only confirms that it always has been a paper launch and the articles you posted are VERY, VERY old, what meaning does a 2 months old article have in the tech industry?!
And do you think an AMD executive would not lie/spin to make AMD look not as bad?
" Supercomputing clusters don't run the workloads, but the desktop everyday guy run? lol it's dumb but it's extremely convenient for techreport article."
Your making up your own story here.. it's about Barc, that's not a Desktop part and HPC is absolutely different to most server workloads, so it's very possible that some HPC customers - running always the same workload - will never encouter this bug.
However, you're right, the whole story may be overly exaggerated but you should keep your accusations of credible techsites to yourself until we have a definite answer or you may look very stupid in the end.