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Didn't Intel have floating point division issues more recently as well?

by fourseventy 2y ago

hinkley 2y ago
Inflation adjusted that’s over 1 billion today. And they do more mitigations with microcode these days.
- xattt 2y ago
  Some irony if internal calculations of financial damage estimates were under or over-estimated because they were done on a defective chip.
  - anticensor 2y ago
    Then that immediately becomes a life or death situation.
- fuzztester 2y ago
  yes. their ”1 in a billion” (excuse) became $1 billion (cost to them). of course, the CEOs not only go scot-free, but get to bail out with their golden parachutes, while the shareholders and public take the hit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_parachute https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_parachute
  - bolognafairy 2y ago
    Those evil CEOs pulling the wool over the eyes of the poor shareholders! This is the employment contract that was negotiated and agreed to by the board / shareholders.
    - fuzztester 2y ago
      Where yuh bin livin all yore laafe, pilgrim? Under a Boulder in Colorado, mebbe? Dontcha know dat contracts can be gamed, and hev bin fer yeers, if not deecades? Dis here ain't Aahffel, ya know? Come eat some chili widdus. Id'll shore put some hair on yore chest, and grey cells in yore coconut. # sorry, in a punny mood and too many spaghetti western movies
  - KennyBlanken 2y ago
    Oh, it gets even better. US taxpayers are giving them billions for "national security" reasons. Nothing like giving piles of cash to a grossly incompetent company (the Pentium math bug, Puma cablemodem issues, their shitty 4G cellular radios, extensive issues with gigabit and 2.5G network interfaces, and now the whole 13th/14th gen processor self-destruction mess.)
kens 2y ago
There's an FSIN trig inaccuracy, but I don't know of other division issues: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underesti...

Didn't Intel have floating point division issues more recently as well?

hinkley 2y ago

Inflation adjusted that’s over 1 billion today. And they do more mitigations with microcode these days.

xattt 2y ago
Some irony if internal calculations of financial damage estimates were under or over-estimated because they were done on a defective chip.
- anticensor 2y ago
  Then that immediately becomes a life or death situation.
fuzztester 2y ago
yes. their ”1 in a billion” (excuse) became $1 billion (cost to them). of course, the CEOs not only go scot-free, but get to bail out with their golden parachutes, while the shareholders and public take the hit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_parachute https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_parachute
- bolognafairy 2y ago
  Those evil CEOs pulling the wool over the eyes of the poor shareholders! This is the employment contract that was negotiated and agreed to by the board / shareholders.
  - fuzztester 2y ago
    Where yuh bin livin all yore laafe, pilgrim? Under a Boulder in Colorado, mebbe? Dontcha know dat contracts can be gamed, and hev bin fer yeers, if not deecades? Dis here ain't Aahffel, ya know? Come eat some chili widdus. Id'll shore put some hair on yore chest, and grey cells in yore coconut. # sorry, in a punny mood and too many spaghetti western movies
- KennyBlanken 2y ago
  Oh, it gets even better. US taxpayers are giving them billions for "national security" reasons. Nothing like giving piles of cash to a grossly incompetent company (the Pentium math bug, Puma cablemodem issues, their shitty 4G cellular radios, extensive issues with gigabit and 2.5G network interfaces, and now the whole 13th/14th gen processor self-destruction mess.)

kens 2y ago

There's an FSIN trig inaccuracy, but I don't know of other division issues: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underesti...