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Wait, really? My understanding was that, whereas VW intentionally cheated to fool regulators, Intel (and others) got blind-sided by a creative attack against a
by ghettoimp 6y ago
Wait, really? My understanding was that, whereas VW intentionally cheated to fool regulators, Intel (and others) got blind-sided by a creative attack against a fundamental, well-established technique for gaining performance. These seem like very different problems.
Note: I haven't followed the "saga" closely so maybe there is more to it that I'm not aware of.
- nwmcsween 6y agoSpeculative execution is fine, speculative execution across protection domains is not. So VW cheated for better milage, Intel cheated for better performance.
- ghettoimp 6y ago"Cheating" implies something sinister. Far more likely, they just missed it. Modern CPUs are at the very edge of what humans can design and build. Hundreds of verification engineers try to make sure they work. Not one of them will have a whole picture of the entire machine in their head, or really understand all of its requirements. The very best, hardest working, most diligent and dedicated teams will still ship a CPU with bugs. Perfection is simply not possible in this domain.