Bugs on Core 2 Duo

OpenBSD founder, Theo de Raadt posted a rant in a mailing list that alleged Intel's Core 2 processors were plagued with many "serious bugs".Various developers are busy implementing workarounds for serious bugs in Intel's Core 2 CPU.These processors are buggy as hell, and some of these bugs don't just cause development/debugging problems, but will *ASSUREDLY* be exploitable from userland code.As is typical, BIOS vendors will be very late providing workarounds/fixes for these processors bugs. Some bugs are unfixable and cannot be worked around. Intel only provides detailed fixes to BIOS vendors...

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Toshiba Begins to Sell AMD-Based Notebooks

Toshiba’s U.S. division on Tuesday (06/26) announced its first two laptops powered by processors by Advanced Micro Devices along with graphics cores by ATI, graphics product group of AMD, in years. The move not only brings some additional revenues to struggling AMD, but also emphasizes the trend among computer makers to have at least two suppliers of core PC components.The new laptops from Toshiba are Satellite A215-S4767 and A215-S4757, which are mostly aimed at price-conscious buyers, but they...

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New AMD Model Number Scheme

AMD will be using a different scheme for classifying and naming its processors. The new model number scheme will consist of 2 letters and 4 digit numbers (example: AB-0000)The FIRST LETTER will be the class/position of the product at the market:G = Premium/High-endB = MainstreamL = ValueThe SECOND LETTER will reveal the TDP of the processor:P = above 65WS = around 65WE = under 65WThe 4-digit number indicates the relative performance of processors within the class.The FIRST DIGIT indicates family of the product:1000 = Single core Athlon and Sempron2000 = Dual core Athlon6000 = Dual core Phenom7000...

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The First Post

Today I created a blog for Vic Computer.Hari ini kami mulai membuat blog ini. Visit our Websites:www.geocities.com/viccomp_senwww.geocities.com/tjin...

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