Ex-AMD Engineer Explains Bulldozer Fiasco: Lack of Fine Tuning.

Performance that Advanced Micro Devices' eight-core processor demonstrated in real-world applications is far from impressive as the chip barely outperforms competing quad-core central processing units from Intel. The reason why performance of the long-awaited Bulldozer was below expectations is not only because it was late, but because AMD had adopted design techniques that did not allow it tweak performance, according to an ex-AMD engineer.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...er_Fiasco.html



Would be sad if true...