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I wonder how much % of my CPU potential performance is given to all this "gimping" done in order to provide state actors a backdoor to every PC and to help the
by laythea 9y ago
I wonder how much % of my CPU potential performance is given to all this "gimping" done in order to provide state actors a backdoor to every PC and to help the CPU manufacturer recover field servicing costs.
- jcranmer 9y agoThere is a diagram of part of the chip with the microcode engine highlighted. It is about the size of an integer ALU port, it looks like. Much, MUCH smaller than L2 cache.