>>...and that's before even getting into things like marginal signal integrity/timing, which was the cause of the early 386's 32-bit multiply bug.
>I'd hope modern fab libraries have checks to prevent these.
They do - but the end user overclocks the f*ck out of them anyway claiming that it's "stable" because it happens to run one workload OK, then complains about software being unstable.
>I'd hope modern fab libraries have checks to prevent these.
They do - but the end user overclocks the f*ck out of them anyway claiming that it's "stable" because it happens to run one workload OK, then complains about software being unstable.