Replaced/repaired, not free. Having said that the problem will be how to replace processors that have become obsolete and therefore out of the market, and where you can not simply replace all the associated hardware to pick up a current and patched processor. And I suspect that most of those who can change the associated hardware will simply migrate to AMD instead of taking another Intel.
Oh I agree 1000%. It's not a freebie, it's Intel living up to the implicit contract to provide a CPU with the performance it was benchmarked when I bought it and not allow user mode stuff to read kernel memory.
In the UK you could make an argument that a processor with that bug was 'not fit for purpose'. Of course it's in the US that a class action suit has the highest chance of success and outside the US Intel will probably follow the US lead.
It'll be interesting to watch. Then again all my Intel chips are
"I want repaired processors for free" (Score:5, Insightful)
You know, he's not wrong. This is, in impact, way bigger than Intel's FDIV fiasco and that ended up in recalls.
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Free i5s and i7s! I want to believe!
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Oh I agree 1000%. It's not a freebie, it's Intel living up to the implicit contract to provide a CPU with the performance it was benchmarked when I bought it and not allow user mode stuff to read kernel memory.
In the UK you could make an argument that a processor with that bug was 'not fit for purpose'. Of course it's in the US that a class action suit has the highest chance of success and outside the US Intel will probably follow the US lead.
It'll be interesting to watch. Then again all my Intel chips are
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Some people are seeing >50% performance loss. Take a look at this graph: https://www.epicgames.com/fort... [epicgames.com]
Clearly they are going to need to spend some serious cash on upgrading their servers. The thread is full of players who can't connect.
Interestingly Intel's CPU data pages contain benchmarks. It will be interesting to see if they update them.
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Some people are seeing >50% performance loss. Take a look at this graph: https://www.epicgames.com/fort [epicgames.com]...
Clearly they are going to need to spend some serious cash on upgrading their servers. The thread is full of players who can't connect.
Interesting. I reckon they'd have a case against Intel