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Intel processor can be remotely patched?! Then why did Intel spend $475m to fix the FDIV bug?
by btian 13y ago
Intel processor can be remotely patched?! Then why did Intel spend $475m to fix the FDIV bug?
- ethomson 13y agoI'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the FDIV bug - or heck, even the much more recent (1997!) F00F bug - might not be so contemporary or represent the state of the art of Intel processors.
- dgl 13y agoPresumably they learnt from their mistake, the Pentium Pro was the first generation where the microcode could be updated. (An ancient /. article, byte article it links to is dead: http://slashdot.org/story/00/10/27/126258/upgrade-your-pentiums-microcode http://slashdot.org/story/00/10/27/126258/upgrade-your-penti...)