Comment by TorKlingberg

Thanks for the link, I had somehow missed that story. I think for a digital hardware engineer, bugs like that are not particularly strange. As software people we are usually shielded from it, because the hardware we are using has been thoroughly tested. Working with embedded software, you are often one of the first people to write code for a particular bit of hardware, and have to watch out for these things. On the other hand, it is tempting to blame the hardware for all mysterious bugs, and the hw engineers do not appreciate that much.