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by WhiteDawn 887 days ago
So last minute that the AMD engineers found out Microsoft went with Intel at the Xbox launch party [1]

[1] https://kotaku.com/report-xboxs-last-second-intel-switcheroo...

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Also, the security system assumes that the system has a general protection fault when the program counter wraps over the 4GB boundary. That only happens on AMD, not Intel.
Wow! Good find!