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		zaarn on Nov 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share: 7nm Makes Landfall... Considering Zen is a groundup new architecture, it's hard to call that "breaking" it, it wasn't correctly implemented on the new design.

skissane on Nov 7, 2019 [–]

Isn't this a sign that AMD's test suites are incomplete?

If they implement a feature correctly then break it in the new design, it suggests their test suites didn't exercise it properly, otherwise (you'd think) they would have caught the regression in the new design and fixed it before release.

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