Alan, That is very true. What I was trying to do was use the FDIV bug. As a past example of a issue that impacted Intel on a economic level due to defect. I was not comparing the scope of the defect on the end user base.
-mmiller On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Alan <a...@clueserver.org> wrote: > 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 > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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