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How can you know in advance if the processor will be recently manufactured or not? I.e. what if it's been sitting on the shelf waiting to be ordered for 8 mont
by metadat 4y ago
How can you know in advance if the processor will be recently manufactured or not? I.e. what if it's been sitting on the shelf waiting to be ordered for 8 months? Or happened to have fell off a shelf into a corner of the warehouse for a year.. etc.
Edit: @empyrrhicist: ah, my mistake. I misunderstood, thinking more recently manufactured CPUs might come with updated microcode. Thanks for the quick help.
- userbinator 4y agoI misunderstood, thinking more recently manufactured CPUs might come with updated microcode. I'm not that familiar with the details of recent CPUs, but at least on the Intel side, I believe they do as part of the stepping identifier.
- empyrrhicist 4y agoIt's not about the manufacture date, its about how long that model has been commercially available so fixes can be found/made to any issues.