On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 10:15 -0800, Michael Miller wrote: > This is really no different than in 1994 with the Pentium FDIV bug. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug > > It's going to cost them money. AMD might be able to get a leg up on > Intel in the X86 market.
Actually that is not quite true. The FDIV bug hit everyone. The Sandy Bridge problem is that the parts degrade after time. (Which is how it got past QA in the first place.) Failures that happen later and are not a total collapse are hard to detect. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
