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AMD has issued an official statement confirming that a manufacturing flaw exists in their Opteron series of server-oriented processors. This mistake will cost AMD some hard earned respect of IT proffesionals, most of who still tend to go with Intel just in case. Well in this case their doubts turned out to be justified as certain series of Opteron processors are being withdrawn.
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The AMD official statemend confirms problems with x52 and x54 series of Opteron processors (152, 252, 852, 154, 254 i 854). The flawed processors have errorous floating-point operations results due to overheating. AMD claims that only a couple of thousand CPU-s are affected, those manufactured late 2005 and early 2006.

AMD tries to save face by recalling all those units quickly, from the major distributors, and replacing every flawed CPU allready sold. But the damage is allready done, since the CPUs used in servers are very carefully picked for their stability and durability, and these flawed Opterons are nothing of the sort.