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read_if_gay_
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Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technica...
Who knows? I can imagine there’s an Intel CPU in a life critical application in more than a few places.
sjwright
on July 28, 2020
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Such life critical applications would be validated for safety by the product manufacturer/integrator, not by Intel.
read_if_gay_
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How can they validate a CPU if Intel can’t?
sjwright
on July 29, 2020
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The same way as they validate the serial UART: by validating its application.
Does the CPU fail if it’s close to an x-ray machine or an MRI? Intel isn’t going to tell you that.
read_if_gay_
on July 29, 2020
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True. But I was thinking along the lines of hardware bugs like the Pentium division bug. I doubt manufacturers go looking for those, and that would be one (albeit slightly contrived) way how someone could die from Intel's mistakes.
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