No, I am not trolling. I am not sealioning. I might be specially pleading - I am not sure.
Segfault has been 'proven'. VME was proven and fixed - but there are still examples of people that can't get the old stuff to run on Win98 on Ryzen (with SVM enabled, other VMs work fine), but the exact...
Basically my point is that these errata appeared a little (maybe a lot) more serious and pervasive than normal to me. I remember the Sandy Bridge chipset recall, Atoms self-bricking and Phenom issues as the several 'big' examples of modern arches having serious hard-to-fix issues. If you patch...
Basically it is that while things may appear alright on the surface for those millions, could the bulk of the iceberg be underneath the waves? Especially with nondeterministic stuff like the cause of segfault - could BSOD this or that be a hardware issue rather than a software one? (But be...
Segfault was apparently a manufacturing issue of some kind. AMD reps have basically confirmed there is no microcode fix for that issue (though updated GCC may not hit the processor the right way to cause it), and it does not occur on older AMD or Intel systems. There is a RMA process setup for...
I'm sure many of us here have vague memories of chips that had real-world, unfixable bugs and problems. Problems that would not go away with a better motherboard, BIOS updates, OS reinstalls - without rewritten software. Problems that others might even blame on a bad overclock until the OP...
As has been said many times on this thread, just because there are two possibilities doesn't necessarily mean that both are equally likely. I either wake up a billionaire tomorrow or I don't, but does anyone here think that it's a 50-50 chance between the two?
Only 1 of two boxes remains. However, it's more likely that the first golden ball you chose was in the first box.
While you did choose a box at random, any time you chose Box 2 but pulled silver the first try, you lost the first go. So only half the time you pulled the first ball in Box 2, was...
I think a lot of people here do not realise that while you are indeed drawing the 2nd ball from the same box as the first (gold) one...
It is more likely (2/3) that the (gold) ball you chose first was in the first box, and hence there is a 2/3 chance you 'chose the first box'.
Which...
Literally happened to me. Hopefully it was just a bad UEFI update from MS, but the symptoms it produced were disconcerting ie. PC sometimes booting, then suddenly shutting off, or refusing to allow me to change settings by shutting off if I tried:
(This would imply active malware or...
This would be very much like Midgard. Sequentially executed, but pipelined and speculatively executed to increase serial performance, using a heuristic engine or just plain 'try every possibility!!!' for the simple predictable code. The differences are: it's x86, there's no RISC decode because...
Simple. 40x comes from the extreme density of the various native x86 instructions
Intel and AMD RISC dynarecs are power hungry and inefficient compared to this, with way lower IPC. As to why 'nobody else has ever thought of this before': that's not true. Many people have thought of elements of...
Because they would be given the opportunity to make a lot of money from this design by working together. If they don't, we flat-out refuse to share any SystemVerilog and process node IP with them, and pit them against each other until one cracks and agrees to do the 1486, while the other misses...
Main technical, financial, legal and corporate details.
Intel will be forced into a brutal, no-holds-barred patent war if they attempt to sue over x86 licensing for this and they will be fought to the last dollar.
I've been very heavily involved in the overall architecture of this project and...
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No selling outside of the FS/T forum.
Also no selling of items not in your possession.
esquared
Anandtech Forum Director
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