Quote Originally Posted by Chumbucket843 View Post
again you miss my point. if AMD has already taped it out and they say it is on track it is because they already know the majority of the bugs that need to be fixed and how long it should take. these horrible bugs you talk about are rare. they tend to show up in niche uses, like a certain instruction sequence, which they test for using automated test vectors.
?? This is absurd.

Nehalem has more states than atoms in the universe ( that's a quote from the chief designer ); I doubt Bulldozer is any less complex ( ok, maybe it is since it lacks full SMT ), either way, your claims come against anything the validation teams are saying.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/te...5547.html?_r=1

Validation is harder and harder with each new generation, the complexity increase is astounding.