Intel recognized the critical shortage in the processors Skylake

Skylake is the code name for the sixth generation of the microarchitecture of the Intel Core processors, which went on sale in 2015. This generation was the fourth significant change in the architecture of Core without changing the 14-nanometer process. But not everything turned out so smoothly with this architecture, and Intel Corporation officially recognized the presence of a serious software flaw, as a result of which the processor can hang right in the middle of work.

Four series of Skylake processors are designed for use in desktop PCs (S series), ultrabooks (U series), high-performance notebooks (H series) and fanless tablets (Y series). In parallel with the processors Skylake was released and the southern bridge PCH. The form factor of the processors is a body size of 23 by 23 millimeters, but with reduced BGA contacts and the distance between them.

The critical bug manifests itself primarily at peak processor load times. He was discovered by chance by experts of the scientific project GIMPS, which aims to find prime numbers of Marsenne. A few weeks ago, many users of this large-scale program faced a problem, as a result of which their computers were simply hanging in the process of mathematical calculations. All these computers combined the presence of Skylake processors in them. The problem affected the PC running various operating systems, including Windows and Linux.

The calculations were made using the Prime95 application, which uses fast Fourier transforms to perform operations with huge numbers. Hanging could happen both in a few minutes after the start of work, and after a few hours. Intel experts seriously reacted to the problem and began to look for the cause of such failures in the work of processors. Fortunately, a couple of weeks later they officially announced that the error was found and it will be fixed with the release of the updated BIOS version. If you own a computer based on the Skylake processor - keep this in mind and follow the official Intel news.

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