12 Jan
2016
12 Jan
'16
6:41 a.m.
<http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/intel-skylake-bug-causes-pcs-to-freeze-during-complex-workloads/> Skylake CPUs can hang during certain computations. Prime searching folks found this. Interesting that Intel says that new firmware can fix it. (The article reminds us that Haswell CPUs had a but in the TSX feature and that the firmware fix just removed TSX. I felt robbed because one reason I bought a system with that processor was that I wanted to play with TSX.))