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30-year-old Pentium FDIV bug tracked down in the silicon — Ken Shirriff takes the microscope to Intel's first-ever recall
IBM declared it could happen every 24 days and ... "Smart mathematicians figured out Pentium's division algorithm and the missing entries in 1995 by examining the pattern of errors," says Shirriff.
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Lessons Learned: Pentium Flaws Aid Intel In Sandy Bridge Chipset Recall
The chip maker also presumably learned from IBM's proactive response -- issuing a press statement and suspending the shipment of Pentium-based PCs without pointing out the rarity of the flaw ...
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Which of the following chipmakers never made x86 CPUs?
IBM has been involved in the development of x86 ... The company gained prominence during the Intel Pentium era, producing standout processors such as the Cyrix 5x86 and 6x86.
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PC CPU models
It stems from the Intel 8086 (x86) architecture in the IBM PC in 1981. Following is a brief history of PC CPUs, starting with the most current. Starting in 1994, AMD introduced its first Pentium ...