On Wed, 03 Jan 2018 06:42:43 -0500 John Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On January 3, 2018 5:31:39 AM EST, Georgi Guninski > <[email protected]> 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/ > >
