"AMD has taken the unusual and embarrassing step of correcting its quoted transistor count for Bulldozer chips from two billion to just 1.2 billion."
""Last week, AMD confirmed the transistor count in the AMD FX CPU line-up at 1.2 billion, a correction from the earlier count of 2 billion. The earlier figure of 2 billion transistors was unfortunately shared in error."
"This correction is not the result of a new revision to the Bulldozer design."
"If two billion transistors seemed awfully fat, however, 1.2 billion is pretty darn thin...." "This means that CPU + cache alone would be 1.32B transistors, before we add I/O, integrated memory controller, or HyperTransport."