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Hoping the Meltdown and Spectre security problems might mean Intel would be buying you a shiny new computer after a chip recall? Sorry, ain't gonna happen.
Intel famously paid hundreds of millions of dollars to recall its Pentium processors after the 1994 discovery of the "FDIV bug" that revealed rare but real calculation errors. Meltdown and Spectre are proving similarly damaging to Intel's brand, sending the company's stock down more than 5 percent.
[...] But Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said the new problems are much more easily fixed -- and indeed are already well on their way to being fixed, at least in the case of Intel-powered PCs and servers. Intel said Thursday that 90 percent of computers released in the last 5 years will have fixes available by the end of next week. "This is very very different from FDIV," Krzanich said, criticizing media coverage of Meltdown and Spectre as overblown. "This is not an issue that is not fixable... we're seeing now the first iterations of patches."
Source: Nope, no Intel chip recall after Spectre and Meltdown, CEO says
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @03:37PM (4 children)
FDIV was 1 line of chips. This is probably 50 lines of CPUs pretty much the ones with FDIV and up.
The scope is pretty much everything they have shipped since 1997.
I could see them *maybe* recalling this years and last years but that would be it. At the very least get the ones that in the pipe at the manufacture that have not been soldered down yet and are still in the trays.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday January 06 2018, @04:19PM (3 children)
Why should they recall anything at all? You can just use a software workaround to avoid the problem. It might cause your system to run half as fast, but that's OK. What are you going to do about it, switch to AMD?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @05:00PM (1 child)
Intel has a reputation for manufacturing half fast CPUs?
(Score: 3, Funny) by redneckmother on Saturday January 06 2018, @07:27PM
Only if you "say" it really fast.
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:33AM
When things start to go sideways in PR land. Watch my prediction come true.