Friday, December 7th 2007
Yorkfield Launch Delayed
AMD hasn't seen the launch of its Phenom processors go as smoothly as it had hoped after the early batches of processors were found to feature an erratum that lead to problems such as system instability and data loss, but now it's Intel turn to solve a few problems. The chip-giant looks set to delay the launch of its upcoming 45nm Yorkfield CPUs because the integrity of the FSB frequency is not satisfactory and may even cause crashes. This shouldn't be a major setback as it has only occurred when forced in a lab rather than in normal everyday computing, but it is likely to add at least a few weeks delay before the Yorkfields become available. The Wolfdale cores are unaffected by this and still on-target for a January release.
Source:
NordicHardware
10 Comments on Yorkfield Launch Delayed
"Hey look, we screwed up too! Kinda... well... a little."
*smashes chip with a hammer*
"Looks like an fsb problem."
Edit: ah I see your being sarcastic, go figure :P
Its worth waiting a little longer knowing how good these chips will be.
Seriously, I don't see any rush. In fact they've given AMD a lot of space in the past years and they're still not screwed, I doubt this will cause it.
They can always release the 1600 pumped FSB later.
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115034