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Way back in the late 90s IBM had a problem with alpha-source-contaminated plastics in their SRAM chips. Those chips were used as caches in Sun SPARC processor m
by blattimwind 8y ago
Way back in the late 90s IBM had a problem with alpha-source-contaminated plastics in their SRAM chips. Those chips were used as caches in Sun SPARC processor modules. IBM told some customers, but not Sun. This caused random bitflips in the processor cache, leading to assorted failures and crashes in what was supposed to be reliable UNIX servers.