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
Would be making Intel give up or provide free licenses to all its patents/copyrights on architectures older than the ones they were willing to replace processors on, and allow 3rd parties to develop compatible processors for Intel architecture motherboards.
Hell, while we are at it, force them to provide documentation for third party developers at some fixed licensing cost for the next 10 years as a punitive measure, opening us back up to second source motherboard and cpu chipsets, something Intel slowly for
I think you'd be hard pressed to convince US politicians of either party to go full on trustbusters on Intel. Especially as they'll claim they're not a monopoly.
"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
The real solution... (Score:0)
Would be making Intel give up or provide free licenses to all its patents/copyrights on architectures older than the ones they were willing to replace processors on, and allow 3rd parties to develop compatible processors for Intel architecture motherboards.
Hell, while we are at it, force them to provide documentation for third party developers at some fixed licensing cost for the next 10 years as a punitive measure, opening us back up to second source motherboard and cpu chipsets, something Intel slowly for
Re:The real solution... (Score:2)
I think you'd be hard pressed to convince US politicians of either party to go full on trustbusters on Intel. Especially as they'll claim they're not a monopoly.
Though they're definitely turning into one
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