Comment Re:So, what's the plan? (Score 1) 63
Memory processes in FPGAs aren't very good. You'd have to really be desperate for a few hundred megabytes of extra memory.
Memory processes in FPGAs aren't very good. You'd have to really be desperate for a few hundred megabytes of extra memory.
I was answering why they don't just invalidate the patents and copy a modern CPU, and the answer is that the patents aren't the reason they're hard to copy. Intel (and others) don't patent their most critical secrets.
I completely agree they have the technology to build older designs, which is just fine. They can then decide whether the investment to upgrade is worth it to them or not.
Plus, they don't have to compete outside of Russia and other ITAR countries.
They only have to be more trustworthy than what can be imported, and "good enough" for the job at hand.
Except that a modern CPU is too difficult to manufacture. Copying the transistors in a CAD program is the easy part, building it with a usable yield is the hard part.
The chance is the same AFR of the rest of the product, but yes, it's very small.
Your worst case is that you cycle your SSD to 100% of its capability (which basically no user does anyway) inside a freezer, then put it on your dashboard as you park your black-on-black sports car in death valley for a 6 month hiking trip.
If you're not doing all 3 of those things simultaneously I wouldn't worry.
one hole per package of NAND will be sufficient
If the code can be executed, regardless of how obscure the keystrokes are to trigger it, then it's a potential security attack vector.
Easter eggs are supposed to be harmless. Essentially stealing 15% on a car purchase doesn't meet my criteria for harmless.
By "done correctly" you mean going through the entire non-easter-egg review and test cycle... in other words, when not an easter egg at all.
Sure, but BMW, Audi and Porsche's workers aren't adding easter eggs to the cars during their 6 weeks of vacation. They're actually resting.
Then why not document it as a test case if that's what you were doing?
I 100% support breaks, downtime, leisure activities, water cooler chats, beer at lunch, naps, etc. Sufficient rest is essential to productivity.
That being said, I think it's a bad idea to spend recharge time making changes to your company's production codebase to add an easter egg. Spend it outside of the office, where it's actually restful for your brain so that you're more effective at work when you return.
If you own your own company/app/whatever, then by all means make whatever choices you want.
750GB per package.
A single SSD may have anywhere from 1 to $alot of packages on the board, hence 10TB SSDs.
Note that you can query ark.intel.com to find every chip that supports ECC:
http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?ECCMemory=true&MarketSegment=DT
A newer study just came out saying it was only 77.4%.
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