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Except their bottom line. Anyone remember the cost to Intel for their faulty FPU in the P5?
by dlp211 11y ago
Except their bottom line. Anyone remember the cost to Intel for their faulty FPU in the P5?
- gherkin0 11y ago> Except their bottom line. Anyone remember the cost to Intel for their faulty FPU in the P5? I don't think that's as big of an issue with modern processors: https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode: > Processors from Intel and AMD may need updates to their microcode to operate correctly. These updates fix bugs/errata that can cause anything from incorrect processing, to code and data corruption, and system lockups.
- gsnedders 11y agoOh, there's still plenty of things beneath that level that can go wrong. Just look at Intel disabling HTM (through microcode, admittedly, but disabling a whole feature isn't fixing it to operate correctly) in Haswell/early Broadwell.