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Yeah, Intel is one of the biggest companies in the world. I was just speculating an absolute floor for just the microcode in particular.

• nickpsecurity 11y ago
  You're the second person to bring up microcode. I'm curious why two are focused on this rather than the HW itself. What about you? Note: For readers not in the know, microcode is the sequence of wiring activations of the physical, closed hardware. Instructions, merely series of bits, get translated to that by the microcode engine running from a memory rather than hardwired engine. Unlike the ISA, it's highly tied to the hardware since it drives it directly.
  • marcoperaza 11y ago
    I'm not focused on this, it was an example used in the post I responded to.
    • nickpsecurity 11y ago
      Oh OK