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Re:Intel Has a Big Problem by crdoconnor on Saturday January 20, 2018 @12:33PM (#16194268)
>Or, again, maybe Intel just totally has them over a barrel and transitioning isn't feasible at all.

That was my hypothesis for why their stock didn't drop much. The problem is very bad but intel's quasi-monopoly and the very high switching costs involved will let them weather it.

Re:Intel Has a Big Problem by BeeOnRope on Saturday January 20, 2018 @03:19PM (#16195198)
Not only will they probably weather it (short term), it will probably result in a reasonable sales bump as affected datacenters replace capacity lost to the various patches and mitigations and also perhaps accelerate replacement schedules when hardware that has designed-in mitigations becomes available.