Prime95 can cause Intel Skylake CPUs to freeze
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'Tis a peaceful night after Christmas, and the ghosts of FDIV and TSX have come once again to haunt Intel. The folks at the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (who make Prime95) have come across a bug in Intel Skylake CPUs that causes affected systems to freeze.
The bug manifests when a certain calculation is performed. Prime95 uses the fast Fourier transform to multiply very large numbers, and at least one ...