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    Not a good year for the microchip industry.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by lowlymarine, Jul 14, 2008.

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    First was the K10 TLB bug, which could cause unexpected crashes in rare circumstances on quad-core Phenoms and Opterons. Then came the recent news that all G84- and G86-based nVidia GPUs could be prone to abnormal rates of heat-related failure. Latest in the line of major problems to plague the industry comes the news that all recent Intel chips are vulnerable to a low-level attack opening up a major security hole in millions of computers worldwide.

    Semi-related joke: What did 1.000543456 Pentium chip say to the other?
     
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    centrino 2 chips are bad?
     
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    notyou, Jul 14, 2008
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