On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 21:15:29 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote:
me >> IIRC you also worked for intel designing memory chips? Excuse my rather naive question but...Did you see/hear at that time any hints that chips were being tampered with or somehow backdooored because of 'national security'? > I didn't design memory chips. I was a "product engineer" for a specific > self-refreshing dynamic RAM I guess I didn't recall correctly then =P . I must have assumed that product engineer more or less meant designer. > In fact, I was the first person at Intel, and perhaps in the world, who saw > the flash(es) through the microscope of the as-being-blown fuses on these > chips. Intel was doing this redundancy before anyone else, I believe. Interesting. I thought that sort of patching was something relatively new only done to the chips in sdcards and the like. I guess it's not new. > I was never in a position to hear if chips could be "backdoored". Oh well. Thanks for the engineering details and info anyway =) > Jim Bell > > > > >