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@robpike @rsc Closest to the dirt here I got was proposing to implement #IEEE754 #DFP on a #Cavium #Octeon substrate for front-running #financial exchange orders. I didn't do it. But I thought it.

6. file di #Snowden del 2013 mai pubblicati prima rivelano che #NSA ha compromesso i microprocessori dell'azienda #Cavium, che nel 2017 è stata acquistata dall'azienda #MarvellTechnology, una delle 2 aziende di microprocessori che domineranno mercato #AI:

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366552520/New-revelations-from-the-Snowden-archive-surface

11. at NO point does #JacobAppelbaum write or even suggest that #Cavium - acquired by #MarvellTechnology- was complicit in the #NSA sabotage activities or was aware of them

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366552520/New-revelations-from-the-Snowden-archive-surface

7. #MarvellTechnology, which acquired #Cavium, is a key semiconductor supplier for #AmazonWebServices (AWS)

6. #JacobAppelbaum: as the new owner of #Cavium, #MarvellTechnology "should conduct a serious and transparent technical security investigation into the matter and make the result available to the public".

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366552520/New-revelations-from-the-Snowden-archive-surface

4.We contacted #MarvellTechnology to ask questions,including whether #Cavium's CPUs have basically remained the same in the last decade,and how we can be sure those #Cavium CPUs,which according to the 2013 #Snowden files were “backdoored”,are no longer marketed and in use

3. The #Snowden files date back to 2013. In 2018, #Cavium was acquired by #MarvellTechnology,one of the two firms which, according to financial services giant J.P. Morgan, will dominate the custom-designed semiconductors market driven by AI:

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366552520/New-revelations-from-the-Snowden-archive-surface