Intel design flaw
Georgi Guninski
guninski at guninski.com
Wed Jan 3 02:31:39 PST 2018
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 08:48:12AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
> For some reason, I'm reminded of the 486 math processor screwup of 1992 (?). As I vaguely recall, the math coprocessor might have errors in the fourth digit of significance. Intel offered to replace the affected chips.
>
I think it is the Pentium FDIV bug. IIRC only the server CPU was
replaced in the whole office, don't remember why.
From TFA: microcode can't fix it, lol. AMD is not affected. Shouldn't
Intel do recall again?
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