Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yousef who wrote (29260)	3/2/1998 4:12:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572970

Yousef, A point of curiosity. Remember a while ago there was the ability to repair chips after the fact by changing some flash area on the chip to fix a bug? Well is it possible to put the core microcode in that kind of flash memory, and then have AMD flash it later. In that case it could be foundried at any location, as it would not be x86 at that time, and would thus bypass the agreements. When AMD put the code inside, it would then necome x86, but that would be done at the AMD facility. I suspect that the flash might not be fast enough for this use, directly, but could it be up loaded into fast memory and then run fine, the way we run BIOSes on motherboards?? Bill