News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Pentium FDIV bug reverse-engineered which costed Intel $475M. Parent comment

Re:Pentium FDIV bug reverse-engineered which costed Intel $475M by xattt on Friday December 13, 2024 @11:03PM (#42414582)
You’re missing the fact that Intel wanted to differentiate itself from the growing IA-32 clone chips from AMD and Cyrix. 586 couldn’t be trademarked, but Pentium could.
[ Parent | on HN ]

There are no comments on this comment yet.