I’d say it’s actually a better market signal rather than indications of huge problems. “See, our competitiors send out defective products; we are holding back to make sure ours ship correctly.”
That’s exactly what enterprise/datacenter customers want to hear: a dedication to stability.
lemmeout@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Nah something fishy
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Any large scale manufacturer like AMD knows about what % of defective returns they get. They’re using the heat on Intel to help make their numbers look better.
lemmeout@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Actually, I think it’s not about defect numbers. This is about delaying until Intel releases the microcode update. They want to be compared after the (potentially) performance tanking update from Intel. Which is hilarious because Intel gave a date after AMD’s initial launch date.
I think it’s also fair as a lot of reviewers aren’t going to bother retesting after Intel releases updates and comparing with AMD after the 9000 series hype has died down, if they had just recently did so for the AMD launch.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 3 months ago
… You just contradicted yourself there with the timeline/dates lol
Woovie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hanlon’s razor, don’t overthink it. No need for mindless conspiracy theories based on zero data. If it’s aajor concern we’ll hear something no doubt.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I think you mean Occam’s Razor. AMD signaling responsibility is a simpler explanation as a “dunk” on Intel, them having a similar issue as Intel seems far too coincidental. They’re on completely different nodes, so there’s no reason their issues would be related.
So my take is that AMD thinks Intel’s fix is going to degrade performance significantly, so they want to wait to ensure their launch is as impactful as possible (bigger perf delta, more time to find hardware issues, etc). If AMD can show strength and reliability while Intel suffers, they could snap up much more market share (and improve product availability at launch).
lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 months ago
no u
DogWater@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Coincidences are real my guy.