On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 21:15:29 +0000 (UTC)
jim bell <[email protected]> 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
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