Hidden Debug Mode Found In AMD Processors

An anonymous reader writes "A hidden (and hardware password protected, by means of required special values in processor registers) debug mode has been found in AMD processors, and documented by a reverse engineer called Czernobyl on the RCE Forums community today. It enables powerful hardware debugging features long longed for by reverse engineers, such as hardware data-aware conditional breakpoints, and direct hardware 'page guard'-style breakpoints. And the best part is, it's sitting right there in your processor already, just read the details and off you go with the debugging ninja powers!"

Comment on AMD Fusion Processors Coming to Future Apple Computers? [Updated] by Seth Weintraub

Fusion isn't coming to Apple. The only model which it would make sense for Apple is the Air which just got an Intel upgrade. The slides are for Apple's use of AMD/ATI GPUs in iMacs and Mac Pros http://www.9to5mac.com/34881/amd-fusion-coming-to-the-mac-platform

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Comment on AMD Fusion Processors Coming to Future Apple Computers? [Updated] by spark0919

This is where I really start to doubt TAB's writing, other than the fact I always feel like I'm reading the "Fox News" of Apple at times (mind you I am an Apple fanboy, but I like a little bit more neutral reading). What makes you so sure that Apple is indeed abandoning Intel processors for AMD's Fusion line? I don't doubt the validity of the source, but what I do doubt is the extrapolation that you guys have made that Apple is "parting ways" with Intel. Why can't they possibly accompany both companies' products? Many other companies have. And anyway, for a company that's so focused on power consumption, I HIGHLY doubt they'll turn to AMD (at the very least they won't turn to them in the notebook space).

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