Did anyone ever hear something about Intel processors having a ARM processor built-in called Minix (Ring -3)? Is that really something or just clickbait.
This is over 5 years old news, this processor does the hyper-threading and the supervising, imagine that Intel processors load about 8MB of binary microcode on every boot.
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Hmm, so Iām running behind 5 years, I must have missed out on so much more. Thanks anyway for sharing.
The situation becomes exponentially worse in those chaotic circuits of billions of transistors. Only IBM Open Power 9 and 10 CPUs are completely open source but their price is very high.