Linus Torvalds had cooled a little after ignited the AVX-512 instructions, which wished him a slow and painful death, comparing them to an “energy virus” that steals high clock speeds. But now it’s DRAM and ECC technology to ensure that stored data isn’t corrupted. –
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Torvalds specifically writesthat Intel was very helpful in crippling ECC technology, which he arranged with a terrible market segmentation. By this he simply means that ECC has not become one of the supported technologies of common desktop or mobile hardware. –
In this way, Intel harmed the entire computer industry and end users and actively opposed the use of ECC, the arguments raised were, according to Torvalds, “complete nonsense” or “bedtime tales”. Now the memory manufacturers themselves have started to use ECC themselves in their products, because they feel that such a thing is absolutely necessary.
But even the memory manufacturer certainly does not oppose or praise Torvalds. He writes that according to them, the deployment of the technology is suitable due to a more economical run with lower consumption. But that’s just “lying bastards” who cheerfully sold bad hardware and never admitted that any problems came simply from making their work easier.
Linus Torvalds ends his outpouring by saying that he has personally complained about this matter for decades and certainly does not want to be able to just say that he was right. He wants this situation to be rectified, so he wants ECC, which AMD, unlike Intel, meets.
This obviously comes across support for un-buffered DDR4 with ECC on Ryzen processors, and we can only add that the upcoming DDR5 standard will have ECC together with ECS (Error Check and Scrub) finally in its specifications, so they will make the topic pointless. . However, we will have to wait until the start of Zen 4 and Alder Lake.
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