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Ok, so they are delaying it again without a reasonable explanation why except that "it is hard". But the real question is: Does it meltdown ?

jlebrech 8y ago
your meltdown question gave me an idea, what if they had extremely fast cpu that were designed to meltdown and you use them like a consumable.
- FridgeSeal 8y ago
  That sounds horrific. Stop talking before you give them any ideas.
  - jlebrech 8y ago
    it would be for emergency calculations, or for running a games that would otherwise cost $$$ for $.
    - SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
      Yeah, cause I want a subscription service / micro-payments for my cpu as well.
      - snuxoll 8y ago
        Intel's already tried CPU DLC with the Pentium G6951 back in 2010, you could buy a $50 upgrade card that would unlock hyper threading and extra L1 cache. Plus there's now the VROC hardware keys to unlock NVMe RAID support on X299 CPU's. Microtransactions were the next step for the gaming industry after traditional expansion packs and then DLC, let's just hope we don't get CPU loot boxes (though I guess we already have that simply due to the silicon lottery, eh?).
- sp332 8y ago
  I think a missile designer did this one time. The missile wasn't expected to exist very long after it was turned on, so they cranked up the power on the CPU and didn't include much of a heatsink. Saved weight but testing was very expensive.
  - imtringued 8y ago
    If it prevents duds then it's worth the effort.
  - cesarb 8y ago
    It was memory, not CPU: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ada/E9bNCvDQ12k/1tezW24ZxdAJ https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ad... "He went on to point out that they had calculated the amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time for the missile and then doubled that number. [...] Since the missile will explode when it hits it's target or at the end of it's flight, the ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention."
trumped 8y ago
Maybe they need more time to implement the new backdoors...

jlebrech 8y ago

your meltdown question gave me an idea, what if they had extremely fast cpu that were designed to meltdown and you use them like a consumable.

FridgeSeal 8y ago
That sounds horrific. Stop talking before you give them any ideas.
- jlebrech 8y ago
  it would be for emergency calculations, or for running a games that would otherwise cost $$$ for $.
  - SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
    Yeah, cause I want a subscription service / micro-payments for my cpu as well.
    - snuxoll 8y ago
      Intel's already tried CPU DLC with the Pentium G6951 back in 2010, you could buy a $50 upgrade card that would unlock hyper threading and extra L1 cache. Plus there's now the VROC hardware keys to unlock NVMe RAID support on X299 CPU's. Microtransactions were the next step for the gaming industry after traditional expansion packs and then DLC, let's just hope we don't get CPU loot boxes (though I guess we already have that simply due to the silicon lottery, eh?).
sp332 8y ago
I think a missile designer did this one time. The missile wasn't expected to exist very long after it was turned on, so they cranked up the power on the CPU and didn't include much of a heatsink. Saved weight but testing was very expensive.
- imtringued 8y ago
  If it prevents duds then it's worth the effort.
- cesarb 8y ago
  It was memory, not CPU: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ada/E9bNCvDQ12k/1tezW24ZxdAJ https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ad... "He went on to point out that they had calculated the amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time for the missile and then doubled that number. [...] Since the missile will explode when it hits it's target or at the end of it's flight, the ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention."

trumped 8y ago

Maybe they need more time to implement the new backdoors...