AMD powered missile hits Intel quarters in Baghdad
The timer chip in Cruise Tomahawk missiles could have been responsible for one
of the missiles going awry and landing in Iran today, The Register can reveal.
This morning, a Tomahawk missile landed by mistake in southern Iran, although
President Kahtamai (it's true!) has not lodged a formal complaint.
Khatamai, however, is now known as President Streaming SIMD Extensions, as
revealed here yesterday.
After Gulf War I, we put it to a senior executive at AMD that it was the 286
chips in Tomahawks which had caused some of them to not hit their targets.
The AMD exec said: "No, you're wrong. It is the AMD 3113 timer chip that caused
the problem." The 286 chip in the head of Tomahawks operates in Protected Mode,
he explained.
An AMD representative today could neither confirm nor deny that the timer chip
is used in the current revs of Tomahawks.
Patriot missiles, used to bring down SCUD missiles, are believed to have
ceramic heads, manufactured by major Japanese vendor Kyocera. ?