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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
AMD's latest CPU, Bulldozer was pretty much considered a flop/disappointment by most enthusiasts.
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Fortunately, AMD isn't run by enthusiasts

Bulldozer is a shift in internal architecture thats quite significant, skewed towards scalability and multithreaded workloads.
Not all of us are interested in one or two cores running really fast and counting FPS in some game. It's a very interesting architecture for big workloads like virtualization, web serving, etc.