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		eru on March 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of th... Isn't that essentially the same as what everyone does with CPUs?

theresistor on March 4, 2022 [–]

GPUs ship with far more workarounds in the drivers because the programmer only has access to the hardware via drivers that can cover up the bugs, and because they’re not constrained by binary compatibility.

eru on March 4, 2022 | [–]

Yes. I think for the CPU they mostly stick those work-arounds into microcode?

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