He's not wrong, both on the recall (which I'm not holding my breath on - I fully expect Intel to fight that to the bitter end given how much more painful than the Pentium replacements that would be for them) and the handling of the entire situation. There's clearly been a very high bar set betweeen those who were given the heads-up and those who were not, especially amongst service providers where it appears that only the *really* big players were in the loop. In the case of BSD devs specifically being le
A recall of every CPU since 2006 would decimate (if the recall isn't heavily utilized) or likely even bankrupt Intel. The Core 2 generation is the oldest practical Intel CPU (yes, I know this is a subjective statement, thus "practical") on which you can run Windows 10 and modern software. Every computer running Windows 10 and an Intel chip would need CPU replacement. We are talking quite literally several billion processors since Intel sells a few hundred million per year. Intel's market cap is over 200 bil
That's exactly my reasoning. By comparison the Pentium recall was easy; die and pin-out compatible CPUs were still in production, but even for a partial recall here it's likely Intel would have to not only dust off old silicon designs, but the associated fabrication processes and packages as well. And that's before you start to factor in the higher proportion of CPUs now that are not really end-user, or even workshop replaceable, because they are phyically attached to motherboards rather than socketed. T
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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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