2024-02-19
Intel cheating in SPEC is nothing new, it's literally in computing textbooks that explain what a benchmark is. Sinthetic benchmarking should just be avoided. BTW amd and nv have also done this in other ways/benchmarks, and removed sampling from those who called it out.
PCWorld
SPEC invalidates 2,600 benchmark results for some Intel Xeon CPUs, saying their compiler artificially inflated the results of its benchmark by as much as 9%
Benchmarks, while inherently contentious and not always representative of real-world performance, are an important tool in any kind of quantitative evaluation.
2020-09-15
“(...) the company has come up against manufacturing issues, such as production yields as low as 50% for its SOC” 50%?! https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: Sony has cut PS5 production for this fiscal year by 4M units to ~11M, following production issues with its custom-designed SoC
- Low yields of company's custom-designed silicon a bottleneck — Sony facing aggressive pricing from Microsoft's Xbox team