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[FYI] New consumer chips with built-in buffer-overflow protection



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AMD Could Profit from Buffer-Overflow Protection

Posted by simoniker on Monday February 23, @02:31PM
from the brimming-moneybags dept.

spin2cool writes "New Scientist has an article about how AMD and 
Intel are planning on releasing new consumer chips with built-in 
buffer-overflow protection. Apparently AMD's chips will make it to 
market first, though, which some analysts think could give AMD an 
advantage as the next round of chips are released. The question will 
be whether their PR department can spin this into a big enough story 
to sell to the Average Joe." 

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