Re: [silk] Bugs in Intel dual core processors?

[Srini Ramakrishnan]

On 6/28/07, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 6/28/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=118296441702631
 http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40567

There have been bugs before on Intel Processors. The most



Interestingly I've heard that the Macbook Pro C2Ds aren't affected.

Cheeni

[silk] Bugs in Intel dual core processors?

[shiv sastry]

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http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=118296441702631
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40567

Re: [silk] Bugs in Intel dual core processors?

[Vinayak Hegde]

On 6/28/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=118296441702631
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40567


There have been bugs before on Intel Processors. The most
famous of them being the FDIV bug[1]. Another well known
one is the F00F bug[2]. But the number of flaws on
Intel Core 2 is quite a few. Looks like this is going the
way of the Itanium chip.

-- Vinayak

References:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
2. http://www.x86.org/errata/dec97/f00fbug.htm