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        Evening all
      
     
    
      
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        we're on the rails today and being professional... what is this?  🤣
      
     
    
      
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        I have no idea. This is so crazy.
      
     
    
      
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        us?? rails?? what rails? 
      
     
    
      
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        and here I was thinking that backside power delivery was methane recaptured from people who ate taco bell
      
     
    
      
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        TomF What does microcode do? I assume it is machine code running ?
      
     
    
      
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        Microcode is the low-level software that runs the very basic operations of a chip, things like how to move data in memory from a cache to an internal register
      
     
    
    
    
      
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        hmm ok, would have thought there was a raw instruction to do that
      
     
    
      
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        Maybe my example isn't great, but microcode tends to be burned into memory on the chip itself (not externally loaded) and does very low level things
      
     
    
      
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        Patrice might have a better example...
      
     
    
    
      
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        It IS basically the lowest level instruction set. Anything below that is hardware basically.
      
     
    
      
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