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
As I recall the Pentium recall was option, i.e. you had to contact them to get your CPU replaced rather than them actively contacting you.
That seems like a reasonable way to handle it. Most people probably won't care enough to get their CPU replaced, but those who want the fix can get it. Of course it gets tricky with soldered on CPUs, for those they would just have to offer compensation.
Why would Intel have to compensate laptop users? They were already provided a software fix. The only areas really hit by the software patch (in performance) were datacenters (virtualization) and databases. Laptop users aren't going to have noticeable slowdowns in websurfing and excel spreadsheets.
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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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As I recall the Pentium recall was option, i.e. you had to contact them to get your CPU replaced rather than them actively contacting you.
That seems like a reasonable way to handle it. Most people probably won't care enough to get their CPU replaced, but those who want the fix can get it. Of course it gets tricky with soldered on CPUs, for those they would just have to offer compensation.
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Why would Intel have to compensate laptop users? They were already provided a software fix. The only areas really hit by the software patch (in performance) were datacenters (virtualization) and databases. Laptop users aren't going to have noticeable slowdowns in websurfing and excel spreadsheets.