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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by collinmanderson on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:46AM (#16257758)
I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of demand for future Intel hardware that's immune to spectre and meltdown. I think it might cause _more_ sales of Intel chips in the future, not fewer.
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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by xigency on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:04AM (#16258229)
Regardless of sales, I would think damage to their image would be a concern. Maybe it's not a concern to investors because their "PR nightmare" turned out to be softball for them, and it's been hard to pin anything on Intel when they keep pointing fingers in all directions.

I think it's our responsibility as technology literate folks and decision makers to explicitly highlight their failures so that mistakes and poor handling like this are not normalized.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by phaser on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:41AM (#16258515)
It would be a concern if real competition was allowed in the x86_64 CPU space. Monopolistic patents, in this case, create the opposite incentives
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