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Daily Archives: April 28, 2006

AMD can’t float either

Posted on April 28, 2006 by Robin

What is it with floating point operations that makes chip vendors so crap at them?
Intel had the floating point operation problem when it released the Pentium processor (1+1=1.999999999 but that’s good enough). Now AMD has the Opteron and it turns out that they accidentally released a few into the wild with floating point problems as well…

Posted in Hardware

NEC pirated pwned

Posted on April 28, 2006 by Robin

Not just NEC products are being rebuilt, but the WHOLE of NEC has been cloned in China! Factories, workshops and all!

Posted in Economics

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