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Intel's Atom C2000 chips are bricking products – and it's not just Cisco hit

Adrian 4
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Oh no, not again

Back in the dawn of PC time, I worked on an 8086 machine designed before everyone was expected to copy IBM. The 8088 and 8086 used a special intel clock driver, the 8284. We had loads of problems with them not oscillating properly ..

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