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Re:Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the wate... by phreenet on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @11:08AM (#21515168)
> Bugs in silicon do exist. Often there's nothing a supplier can do about it.

I learned this the hard way with my 1U Intel Atom C2000 series server. Completely bricked due to a bug in the CPU.

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Re:Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the wate... by duskwuff on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:41PM (#21517940)
Oof. That was an interesting one, too -- as best as I can tell, something was wrong with the pin driver for the LPC bus clock, and it would degrade over time as it was used.
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