On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:29:50 +0200, Alessandro wrote in message <33ad4565-eb5d-f434-cb8d-0bbd8a8a3...@linux.com>:
> On 15/08/2017 at 05:13, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > > FYI Many big companies get intel to include classified instruction > > sets to give them some kind of competitive edge. > > > > I can't find the link but it was in a bloomberg article about xeon > > CPU's. > > Maybe it's this piece: > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/how-intel-makes-a-chip > > Another way to make a chip faster is to add special circuits that only > do one thing, but do it extremely quickly. Roughly 25 percent of the > E5’s circuits are specialized for, among other tasks, compressing > video and encrypting data. There are other special circuits on the > E5, but Intel can’t talk about those because they’re created for its > largest customers, the so-called Super 7: Google > <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-06/google-taps-ibm-rackspace-to-dent-intel-s-hold-on-server-chips>, > Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. Those > companies buy—and often assemble for themselves—Xeon-powered servers > by the hundreds of thousands. If you buy an off-the-shelf Xeon server > from Dell or HP, the Xeon inside will contain technology that’s > off-limits to you. “We’ll integrate [a cloud customer’s] unique > feature into the product, as long as it doesn’t make the die so much > bigger that it becomes a cost burden for everyone else,” says Bryant. > “When we ship it to Customer A, he’ll see it. Customer B has no idea > that feature is there.” > ..does "FSB" qualify as a "3-letter agency" in this context and at this time? ;o) ..the "OT: most processors are insecure" is clearly worth a mention at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage. ..and somebody at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage might know when and how etc the systemd deveopers learned what we learned in that thread here. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng