Hardware

Intel Pentium F00F Bug

From time to time, we get to know that our CPUs are not bug-free. The terms ‘Spectre’ and ‘Meltdown’ comes to mind. However, there are many more flaws that sneak into a final production of a microprocessor. Have you heard of the ‘FDIV’ bug in the original Pentium? This bug resulted erroneous floating point calculations. Intel fixed this flaw and offered…
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