There have always been latent bugs in CPUs, beyond a degree of complexity it pretty much becomes a certainty. One of the fundamentals of selling shit profitabl

There have always been latent bugs in CPUs, beyond a degree of complexity it pretty much becomes a certainty. One of the fundamentals of selling shit profitably, is that you try to sell the vast majority of what you make, one of the consequences is that the vast majority of users exist outsider of your company and after development. So you throw some very smart people at the problems of building and validating and building and validating, and hope that no two of them makes or repeats a mistake. Yes, there've been some disturbingly cavalier attitudes on the patchable software side towards release quality, and more recently by Boeing on the hardware side (which they proceeded to patch from the software side), but I have not seen that sort of wanton disregard for quality from AMD/Intel/NVidia. Honestly, the fact that this is even interesting enough to show up on HN tells you enough about how frequently it happens.