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A comment on Intel's "cripple AMD" function. Parent comment

Re:Intel's "cripple AMD" function by wmf on Sunday January 03, 2010 @03:56PM (#1029122)
VIA has a writable vendor string which they have used to reveal this type of shenanigans in the past.
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Re:Intel's "cripple AMD" function by rbanffy on Sunday January 03, 2010 @11:17PM (#1029750)
I always liked those guys. The über-486 Centaur built was briiliant design and out-of-the-box thinking from top to bottom.

Weren't the VIAs able to trounce Xeons in some crypto stuff?

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Re:Intel's "cripple AMD" function by wmf on Sunday January 03, 2010 @11:48PM (#1029780)
Weren't the VIAs able to trounce Xeons in some crypto stuff?

Yes, since they had crypto instructions and nobody else did. Now I would expect Westmere to be faster.

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