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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 31 2018, @05:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the doesn't-raid-fix-this? dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

In 2015, Microsoft senior engineer Dan Luu forecast a bountiful harvest of chip bugs in the years ahead.

"We've seen at least two serious bugs in Intel CPUs in the last quarter, and it's almost certain there are more bugs lurking," he wrote. "There was a time when a CPU family might only have one bug per year, with serious bugs happening once every few years, or even once a decade, but we've moved past that."

Thanks to growing chip complexity, compounded by hardware virtualization, and reduced design validation efforts, Luu argued, the incidence of hardware problems could be expected to increase.

This month's Meltdown and Spectre security flaws that affect chip designs from AMD, Arm, and Intel to varying degrees support that claim. But there are many other examples.


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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday February 01 2018, @01:20PM (3 children)

    by Wootery (2341) on Thursday February 01 2018, @01:20PM (#631457)

    I'm inclined to trust market forces here. If people cared more about correctness than performance, wouldn't we expect the CPUs on the market to reflect that?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Thursday February 01 2018, @02:09PM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday February 01 2018, @02:09PM (#631475)

    I'm inclined to trust market forces here. If people cared more about correctness than performance, wouldn't we expect the CPUs on the market to reflect that?

    Seriously? The mass CPU market is consumer driven, you trust Facebook users to decide how robust/secure the majority of CPUs manufactured and used in the world should be?

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    • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday February 01 2018, @03:43PM (1 child)

      by Wootery (2341) on Thursday February 01 2018, @03:43PM (#631500)

      Eh? Do Facebook profit by their servers being insecure?

      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday February 01 2018, @09:21PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday February 01 2018, @09:21PM (#631700)

        Not talking about Facebook itself profiting, talking about the mass market electronics consumers of the world (Facebook users, among others) and their "collective wisdom" with respect to reliability, security, etc. For every Facebook server machine, there are hundreds of users who access it via multiple consumer gadgets each - that's the market that needs a nanny.

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