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swiftcoder
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Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devic...
At AWS scale you can feasibly just buy up the entire run of chips. What's a few million CPUs more or less between friends?
mywittyname
on Nov 15, 2021
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Additionally, Amazon is absolutely the type of company to create their own x86 processor if Intel/AMD are unwilling to make some customization.
Intel does not want to be competing with an Amazon Basics processor.
swiftcoder
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They already have pretty significant investment in their own ARM-based chips for servers. Given Apple's recent success in x86 emulation on ARM, I doubt it's worth the trouble of directly competing in the x86 arena.
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You basically need a license for X86 from Intel for this. Do you think x86 is open source!
folmar
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The usual line of operation is to include VIA in the operation.
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