Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot

Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by hodgesrm on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @04:48PM (#16119428)

Or give a price break on future hardware. The fix is turning out to be incredibly expensive for ordinary users, virtualization vendors, hardware vendors, OS providers, cloud providers, etc.

This incident demonstrates why you really don't want catastrophic bugs in the CPU. The fact that the hardware vendors missed this one makes you wonder what else is out there.

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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by gruez on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:03PM (#16119557)

>Or give a price break on future hardware

feels like this would happen:

>intel agrees to give consumers a $30 price break in response to meltdown/spectre

>in other news, intel raises the prices of next generation CPUs by $30

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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @08:53PM (#16120895)

Make it $60 and I'll take that, all the better for them to get undercut by AMD.

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