Heinous CPU bugs of 2015 and their implications for the future
2015 was a pretty good year for Intel. Their quarterly earnings reports exceeded expectations every time. They continue to be the only game in town …
Hasnain says:
CPU bugs! Really interesting to see how FFTs can crash Skylake processors
"In part, that’s because “unpredictable system behavior” have moved from being an annoying class of bugs that forces you to restart your computation to an attack vector that lets anyone with an AWS account attack your cloud-hosted services, but it’s mostly because CPUs are now complex enough that they’ve become too complicated to test effectively. "
Posted on 2016-01-11T04:54:38+0000