A clear candidate for Worst design along the AMD E1-2100 or the C50 and the VIA C3.
I can see it even stuttering while running SNES emulator.
A clear candidate for Worst design along the AMD E1-2100 or the C50 and the VIA C3.The single cores in-order Atoms have no saving.
Not quite. Intel shipped that after reviewers found a serious bug with the processor. They later found the bug themselves and sent a halt order to their OEM partners.Reading back through this, I feel as a single processor the PIII 1.13GHz CPU doesn't get enough hate.
Released for over $1k. Already golden sample CPU's. Only gotten as far as to ship to like 10-15 reviewers. Was running so badly it performed like a CPU that was overclocked to far. Recalled and never relaunched.
Customers who own a Pentium III 1.13 GHz will be contacted to either get some kind of replacement or a refund. Intel states that the number of end users with a 1.13 GHz system is rather small. Our own estimates are between 10,000 and 20,000 shipped systems. Intel did not quote a number.
I didn't remember it being the widely shipped. Considering the trend of Review samples and shipping products 3-4 months later at the time I thought that number was mostly just maybe units shipped to their distributers and barely any if any at all made it to end user.Not quite. Intel shipped that after reviewers found a serious bug with the processor. They later found the bug themselves and sent a halt order to their OEM partners.
Intel Admits Problems With Pentium III 1.13 GHz: Production and Shipments Halted
We just reported our latest bad experiences with Intel's recently released high-end processor. While I asked Intel to consider the retraction of their Pentium III 1.13 GHz processors once more, I couldn't know how close Intel was to actually do exactly that. Read the full scoop on the situation.www.tomshardware.comCPU embarrassment: Intel recalls Pentium III 1.13GHz
CPU embarrassment: Intel recalls Pentium III 1.13GHzwww.itprotoday.com
What I remember from this period was Intel threatened to blacklist lower rung reviewers/sites if they kept pushing this then unconfirmed bug until they themselves discovered the flaw. Otherwise they had been shipping the processor for 4 weeks.
That last part is very funny because I was one of those unlucky customers! Oh how we laughed at the store...
My memory of those days isn't so great but I do remember being told on a now defunct forum that Tom's was to be avoided for such and such reasons but I don't recall any specificity to what those accusations were. Six years later on I mentioned Toms a few times and people would clown on the site. Up until now I didn't know the full extent of how bad Toms had handled their bias. 23 years later but oh well.I didn't remember it being the widely shipped. Considering the trend of Review samples and shipping products 3-4 months later at the time I thought that number was mostly just maybe units shipped to their distributers and barely any if any at all made it to end user.
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Part of the problem was Tom's hardware. Tom was a big Intel fanboy, even a couple years later stacking the deck against AMD in an uptime time test, had the Intel system fail miserably, blamed it on the Nvidia chipset and proceeded to use that as proof that AMD wasn't a good platform because people primarily used Nforce chipsets. Kinda of a bit of a side tangent. But its important because, him confirming that the "bug" existed was needed to get Intel to act. But he basically refused to look into it because it passed there test and took Kyle Bennett sending his and convincing to other sites he was working with to ship Tom their CPU's and force him to look at it. He then while giving some credit to Kyle and the rest, acted like he was the only able to confirm there was an actual issue and worked with Intel's fantastic crew that was caught completely off guard by the issue to start the recall. While Toms was the only site to have the pull to get Intel to listen, that had more to do with Intel's PR team then anything Tom did.
Literally the Galaxy Note 7 of their era... now this is a new champion. The rest of them weren't recalled.Reading back through this, I feel as a single processor the PIII 1.13GHz CPU doesn't get enough hate.
Released for over $1k. Already golden sample CPU's. Only gotten as far as to ship to like 10-15 reviewers. Was running so badly it performed like a CPU that was overclocked to far. Recalled and never relaunched.
Those small cores were an insult to everyone. Bobcat is the exception. But then those pieces of crap that can't even run an SNES emulator properly were flooding the market. Then comes Intel Bay Trail and literally made them rendered as pieces of the past.Ive already mentioned this, but the worse cpus, ever, were AMD small cores, starting from Bobcat, Bobcat itself was not considered bad at their time because they were way better than the Atoms of that time, but it was really bad regardless, their cpu performance was below of the previous Neo budget cpus like the L335 and and igp perf was gimped due to single channel memory and with CPU cores not helping, perf was generally below Intel HD2000/3000 that launched that same year with the 2nd gen core.
But the worse came after that, AMD started to really milk the small cores and allowed OEMs to put them anywhere, the number of DOA 100% unusable e-Waste from Day 1 notebooks that i saw with the C-30 to C-70 APU was increible, the damage that caused to AMD brand is increible, and they never stopped!!! they keep this up for a few years until the small cores were dead. The last few ones, like the Beemas quad cores were not terrible, but they were still bad and the dual core Beemas were really slow regardless. And use considerable more power than a Gemini Lake.
They are still around, im sitting next to a box of Asrock QC6000Ms.... im actually suprised that after Ryzen AMD didnt re-buy all those chips that were still around and burn them.
I want to add another candidate and maybe they will be the All Time Heavyweight champions of the thread.... the Raptor Lake processors. Unlike the rest, those processors have a lethal CPU code bug that literally degrades the processor over time rendering it useless at the end.
I vote this way also. Nothing in that original list compares with these, as these will self-destruct way before the warranty goes out.I want to add another candidate and maybe they will be the All Time Heavyweight champions of the thread.... the Raptor Lake processors. Unlike the rest, those processors have a lethal CPU code bug that literally degrades the processor over time rendering it useless at the end.
Gotta agree that Cyrix was the worst.Cyrix 6x86 had worse thermals, worse FPU, more shady marketing, cache bug!
That is the issue... how Raptor Lake was so screwed up in the execution if is the same of Alder Lake in terms of uArchGotta agree that Cyrix was the worst.
Only bad CPUs I've ever seen were Cryix and early AMD before thermal protection was added.
Got a feeling RL is going to result in a ton of bad parts but I'll never see them because I'm retired and we bought AMD 7xxx last time.
That is the issue... how Raptor Lake was so screwed up in the execution if is the same of Alder Lake in terms of uArch
How Israel saved Intel
Five hundred employees and guests crowded under a white tent half the length of a football field at Intel's Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters as Chief Executive...www.seattletimes.com
They are in FULL control of Intel CPU architecture design. That's why Jim Keller couldn't finish his tenure there.
Yep. The Israelis hated Keller and his guts because he told them straight to their faces what they were doing wrong and what they needed to do right. They are so arrogant and haughty that they didn't take his criticism well. They think they own Intel coz it was their Banias (Centrino) CPU design that saved Intel during the P4 disaster era. Being proud of your success is one thing but when arrogance creeps in, that's when the mind closes itself off to any ideas coming from others, even the good ones.Not sure what you mean? Keller and the design team didn't get along?
With that screwup I suspect that the layoff might come from their team now.Yep. The Israelis hated Keller and his guts because he told them straight to their faces what they were doing wrong and what they needed to do right. They are so arrogant and haughty that they didn't take his criticism well. They think they own Intel coz it was their Banias (Centrino) CPU design that saved Intel during the P4 disaster era. Being proud of your success is one thing but when arrogance creeps in, that's when the mind closes itself off to any ideas coming from others, even the good ones.
I doubt that. It would just be hardworking folks losing their jobs. Bad managers tend to blame their subordinates to save their necks.With that screwup I suspect that the layoff might come from their team now.
Yep. The Israelis hated Keller and his guts because he told them straight to their faces what they were doing wrong and what they needed to do right. They are so arrogant and haughty that they didn't take his criticism well. They think they own Intel coz it was their Banias (Centrino) CPU design that saved Intel during the P4 disaster era. Being proud of your success is one thing but when arrogance creeps in, that's when the mind closes itself off to any ideas coming from others, even the good ones.
SX and SLC versions of 386 and 486 rank right up there with NVidia promoting the releasing 64-bit memory channel Ti cards. Felt like a bait and switch for the prices.
I actually kind of miss the fixed function pipeline, but I am glad we moved on.More like "GeForce MX", without shaders, that held back game technology for years.