<div dir="ltr">On 14 February 2018 at 14:32, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" target="_blank">talk@gtalug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-"><br></span><div><span class="gmail-">
| > Almost NO 32-bit x86 chips are in current production.  I think that<br>
| > Intel has some goofy SoCs for IoT applications that are limited to<br>
| > 32-bit but they really don't matter.<br>
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| No, they canned that line last year. They really were not very good.<br>
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</span>This doesn't say that it is EoLed.  But I do think I heard that they<br>
stopped work in this direction.<br>
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<<a href="https://ark.intel.com/products/91949" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ark.intel.com/<wbr>products/91949</a>><br>
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The "segfault bug" (lock instruction (prefix?) bug) sounds bad:<br>
<<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark#Segfault_bug" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/<wbr>wiki/Intel_Quark#Segfault_bug</a>><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's an awesome solution they implemented there: "don't use LOCK."  Intel says "It's 2014, you don't need multi-threading!"<br><br></div><div>There's this assumption among many computer geeks (until today I was among them) that Intel is the chip "gold standard."  I _should_ have changed my mind on that after their spectacularly poor response to Spectre and Meltdown.  And then there's the security nightmare of the IME, a horribly insecure computer-within-your-computer.  But for some reason, I think this is the figurative straw that broke the camel's back: I'm going to be looking to other chip manufacturers after this.<br><br></div><div>All my vehemence and reading <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine</a> shows that AMD has created their own IME-alike.  Security is a thing of the past ...<br></div></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Giles<br><a href="https://www.gilesorr.com/" target="_blank">https://www.gilesorr.com/</a><br><a href="mailto:gilesorr@gmail.com" target="_blank">gilesorr@gmail.com</a></div>
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