Matt Dillon hardly needs an introduction, however, I'd just like to point out that he's one of the few folks that I trust on estimating these CPU bugs, as back

Matt Dillon hardly needs an introduction, however, I'd just like to point out that he's one of the few folks that I trust on estimating these CPU bugs, as back in 2012, he actually found a bug in AMD CPUs that resulted in an erratum from the vendor: * http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2012-03/msg00006.html http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2012-03/msg00... * http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/07/amd_opteron_bug_dragonfly/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/07/amd_opteron_bug_drag... He was also involved in providing a public analysis of the Intel Core bugs back in 2007: * http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070630105416 http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070630105416