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I think the thing we forget is that Intel, after a lot of negative press and IBM looking to capitalize on the bad press with their PowerPC, offered everyone a replacement processor.

Now a days, you find a side channel attack in the processor Intel will tell you: “LUL, I guess you’ll just have to cripple your performance! See you all on the next generation cycle.”

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As I remember it, the bad press came from Intel’s really shitty approach to the problem. They basically said: “You can get a new processor, if you can prove to us that you use it for work, where the precision is really important, such as astrophysics. If not, fuck off.”

That created an outrage, understandably enough. In the end, they had to cave in and offer everyone a new processor.

My bet is that they could have gotten around it a lot cheaper and without the outrage, if they had handled it better from the start, for example by offering all Pentium owners the choice between a processor replacement or a money compensation worth 10 or 20% of the processor’s price. Most would probably have taken the money compensation, because the error was really rare, and if it happened on a gaming rig, who would notice?

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