Skeptical about claim that stamp creation burns out modern CPUs
Riad S. Wahby
rsw at jfet.org
Thu Jan 1 11:56:51 PST 2004
Tim May <timcmay at 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.
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Riad Wahby
rsw at jfet.org
MIT VI-2 M.Eng
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