• A hardware bug is a bug in computer hardware. It is the hardware counterpart of software bug, a defect in software. A bug is different from a glitch which...
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  • In digital computing, hardware security bugs are hardware bugs or flaws that create vulnerabilities affecting computer central processing units (CPUs)...
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    The Pentium FDIV bug is a hardware bug affecting the floating-point unit (FPU) of the early Intel Pentium processors. Because of the bug, the processor...
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  • Software bug Hardware bug BUG (tag), a computer programming comment tag Pathogen, colloquially Bug (comics), a superhero in Marvel comics Bug (Starship...
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    is sometimes used to describe similar hardware design flaws such as the Cyrix coma bug. No permanent hardware damage results from executing the F00F...
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  • A software bug is a design defect (bug) in computer software. A computer program with many or serious bugs may be described as buggy. The effects of a...
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  • of Exploitation IT risk Threat (computer) Vulnerability (computing) Hardware bug Secure coding "CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors". SANS...
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    CMD640 (category Hardware bugs)
    original CMD640 has data corruption bugs, some of which remained in CMD646. The data corruption bug is similar to the bug affecting the contemporaneous PC...
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  • up from 133A, but it is not listed on the VIA site. KT266 contains a hardware bug which causes system instability when using the AGP slot at the specified...
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  • is an extension to the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) that adds hardware transactional memory support, speeding up execution of multi-threaded software...
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  • Halt and Catch Fire (computing) (category Hardware bugs)
    purposes, and unintentional illegal instructions. Some are considered hardware defects, and if the system is shared, a malicious user can execute them...
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  • Row hammer (category Hardware bugs)
    notes on DRAM (#rowhammer), March 9, 2015, by Robert Graham Rowhammer hardware bug threatens to smash notebook security, InfoWorld, March 9, 2015, by Serdar...
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  • engineering, a bug is a design defect in an engineered system that causes an undesired result. Although used exclusively to describe a technical issue, bug is a...
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  • The Cyrix coma bug is a design flaw in Cyrix 6x86 (introduced in 1996), 6x86L, and early 6x86MX processors that allows a non-privileged program to hang...
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  • Heisenbug (redirect from Heisenbug (bug))
    affecting the hardware, a well-documented phenomenon known as single event effects. A bohrbug, by way of contrast, is a "good, solid bug". Like the deterministic...
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  • Transient execution CPU vulnerability (category Hardware bugs)
    (March 5, 2020). "Intel CSME bug is worse than previously thought – Researchers say a full patch requires replacing hardware. Only the latest Intel 10th...
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    Glitch (category Software bugs)
    dictionary. Fuzzing Glitch art Glitch removal Hazard (logic) Hardware bug Software bug Pieschel, Alex (December 8, 2014). "Glitches: A Kind of History"...
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    years; however, heavier I/O workloads can exacerbate the problem. This hardware bug cannot be fixed by BIOS update. Intel stopped production of flawed B2...
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    EP9312, and EP9315 System-on-Chip integrated circuits. Plagued with hardware bugs and poor compiler support,[citation needed] it was seldom used in any...
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  • Debugging (redirect from Bug bash)
    process of finding the root cause of and workarounds and possible fixes for bugs. For software, debugging tactics can involve interactive debugging, control...
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  • a list of virtualization-capable IOMMU-supporting hardware. List of Intel and Intel-based hardware that supports VT-d (Intel Virtualization Technology...
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    by the bug would require anything between $400 million and $600 billion to rectify. A lack of clarity regarding the potential dangers of the bug led some...
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  • Killer poke (category Hardware bugs)
    In computer jargon, a killer poke is a method of inducing physical hardware damage on a machine or its peripherals by the insertion of invalid values,...
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    Atari ST - back to consoles. However, the multi-chip architecture, hardware bugs, and poor tools made writing games for the Jaguar difficult. Underwhelming...
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    updating features or patching bugs, at the cost of overhead to compute general operations. Advantages of focusing on hardware may include speedup, reduced...
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    vertical strips of the display) on top of this there were some minor hardware bugs in the older silicon that had been addressed by including workarounds...
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  • of California, Berkeley SPARC Bug Labs, a US technology company that began by developing and selling open-source hardware peripherals for rapid prototyping...
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  • or sold, in order to adapt to specific operating systems or to fix hardware bugs. However, a commonly usable microassembler for today's CPUs is not available...
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    Hardware-based encryption is the use of computer hardware to assist software, or sometimes replace software, in the process of data encryption. Typically...
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    List of Intel chipsets (category Lists of computer hardware)
    Point Intel 6 series chipsets with stepping B2 were recalled due to a hardware bug that causes their 3 Gbit/s Serial ATA to degrade over time until they...
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