Linus Torvalds feels like the microarchitectural levels in AMD and Intel's CPUs are based on a "completely broken model" that "needs to die."
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Microsoft is seemingly introducing a new Windows 11 requirement on version 24H2 for older CPUs and it can not be bypassed. A similar change was, perhaps inadvertently, pushed to Visual C++ as well.
Microsoft is reportedly updating the CPU instruction support on Windows 11 with a new "POPCOUNT" instruction, which means systems with very old PCs won't be able to bypass requirements.
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