CPU designers have been aware of this attack vector for a while, so many (maybe all) have controls to lock these registers. They are written and locked by vendor firmware before it hands off to the operating system.
You would have first break the firmware or locks before an attack like this on a modern CPU
9 months to production is completely impossible anyway.
9 months from design to early samples is probably impossible given than TSMC takes 3 months after tape out to produce them. Then it’s up to the customer to qualify and revise for production. TSMC doesn’t do that.
The oral tradition you're probably trying to refer to is the Rigveda, which is amazing. It's like a human recorder that kept a series of vocalizations intact for thousands of years through chanting, with error correction mechanisms and all sorts of tricks to reduce drift over time.
That's our oldest attested oral tradition, 2000 years or so. Stretching to a maximum of 6000 years if we're generous.
Buddhism is like, a thousand years after that.
It's all still super young though. Like I said, humanity has 300.000 years.
Earliest petroglyphs from 50.000 years ago corroborate my point of view: they depict animals, and migrations and shit. Nothing that can attest some kind of cult towards individuals, no heroes, no holy images.
So, yeah, talking about the Buddha "seems like old stuff", but it really isn't in the timescales that matter for estabilishing what "human nature" is, we've been human way before all that jazz appeared.
40,0000+ years of oral traditions, validated with science.
We can't even keep our stories straight in the 24 hour news cycle - they kept their stories alive over 10's of thousands of years with real civilization.
In the chip design world, 2:1 for design verification to design is on the low end of normal.
Some organizations have gone as low as 1:1 but that is considered an emergency that must be fixed. It’s so important that designers will be intentionally underworked if there are not enough validation engineers on staff.
When you can’t fix bugs in the field, quality is important.
We're talking about the same site that constantly has submissions from politically biased sources alluding to various ways that the orange man is bad, where comments pushing standard right-wing talking points are frequently flagged and killed within minutes, and a recent Ask HN seriously entertained the question of whether HN is "fascist" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44598731) because the "orange man is bad" posts get flagged?
Not fair. Its not right wing or any wing. I think the decent thing to do is not speak ill of the dead. I didnt like him, I barely took notice of what he did. He was not on any side just on the side of opportunity. But there is no solution to be found in violence.
My solution is that I no longer contribute to the public internet in any meaningful way. No more open source projects. No more contributions to free software. Bug reports only when it helps me. The hacker ethos is dead. Selfishness and greed won.
Silicon Valley builds empires off the back of free intellectual labor. I'm done with all of it. If they want something from me they can (and do) pay for it.
You would have first break the firmware or locks before an attack like this on a modern CPU