Re: Skeptical about claim that stamp creation burns out modern CPUs

Tim May <timcmay@got.net> wrote:

Now I grant you that I haven't tested CPUs in this way in many years. But I am skeptical that recent CPUs are substantially different than past CPUs. I would like to see some actual reports of "burned literally" CPUs.

I've never seen a "burned literally" CPU, but I have tracked the demise of an AMD K6 (or K6-2, can't remember now) from hot carrier effects. If all processors were made like that one, you would see a lot more load-induced failures. -- Riad Wahby rsw@jfet.org MIT VI-2 M.Eng