Back in the "glory" days of Windows Vista, AMD was already focused on providing high-performance, multi-core, 64-bit CPUs— but as noted by current and past AMD engineer Phil Park on Twitter, the AMD TLB bug impacting Barcelona architecture CPUs put the company in truly dire straits. In fact, Park says AMD called it the "layoff bug," apparently in a nod to the fact that the bug was so severe the resulting losses could lead to layoffs in the company.
Phil Park shares this and lots of other information in the thread, partially made to reply to comments by Hemant Mohapatra, a former AMD employee. We have previously referred to this thread when Mohapatra stated that Jensen Huang would have sold Nvidia to AMD if he could be CEO of the new joint company, and Phil Park confirmed those comments to be true.
