Intel design flaw

[juan]

On Wed, 03 Jan 2018 06:42:43 -0500
John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On January 3, 2018 5:31:39 AM EST, Georgi Guninski
> <guninski at guninski.com> wrote:
> >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?
> > 
> 
> I think they might go bankrupt ;)


	haha I wish. If people tried to sue intel, the US govt would
	throw the plaintiffs in jail.

	Oh, and here's another Pretty Good One 

	https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.00551

	looks like all RAM is fucked hahaha











> 
> And think of all the work for sysadmins swapping CPUs &
> swapping systems... I think we are going to be stuck with 
> OS level fixes that are potentially very bad for performance.
> People are already grumbling about the potential impact on
> AWS & other cloud providers... Speculation about a 30%
> performance hit?!
> 
> 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7npcgu/kernel_memory_leaking_intel_processor_design_flaw/
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