Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018) (randomascii.wordpress.com)

by mariuz • 52 comments • 153 points

52 comments

[−] chasil 60d ago

It is interesting that IBM dominated this generation of consoles, and was vanquished in the next.

The high failure rates of the Xbox 360 did not help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

[−] vondur 60d ago

I thought the design flaws of the Xbox 360 cooling system had more to do with Microsoft than any inherent design flaw by IBM. I assumed that switching to x86 processors let Microsoft leverage their native developer tools from Windows which helped developers.

[−] TazeTSchnitzel 60d ago

This article is from 2018.

Previously:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16094925

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27480448

[−] jszymborski 60d ago

Would need "(2018)" in the title.

[−] dev-ns8 60d ago

Wow... A speculative branch prediction path actually get's preemptively executed despite the branch outcome? No matter if the execution has side-affects??? That's quite amazing. Are modern CPUs doing speculative execution like this and just put extra safeguards around affects or do they just prefetch / decode instructions now-a-days?

[−] NooneAtAll3 60d ago

unrelated, but recently XBox One was hacked for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTFn4UZsA5U

[−] alumno_007 60d ago

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