Quote Originally Posted by Katzenschleuder View Post
Why?
Well I posted in rush, I've been thinking not of "a TLB bug" but "the TLB bug".
It would be extremely unlikely that both companies made the same mistake. Especially that Intel knew of AMD's problem.

Quote Originally Posted by Katzenschleuder View Post
The whole hype around AMDs TLB bug was just another demonstration on how the common IT consumer web community lacks respectable wisdom.
IMO the hype was caused by the way AMD handled the problem - they shipped flawed review samples to get better benchmark scores.