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With the Pentium floating point bug (1994), Intel offered to replace the defective CPUs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug https://en.m.wikipedi
by Tempest1981 9y ago
With the Pentium floating point bug (1994), Intel offered to replace the defective CPUs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
IIRC almost nobody took them up on the offer. But today there is far more cloud computing, so datacenters might.
- krylon 9y agoBut back then, Intel could not deny that the FDIV bug was an actual bug in the CPU. Intel's press release on Meltdown is carefully worded to avoid admitting it's a bug in the CPU. But since the USA have the highest lawyer-per-citizen ratio in the world, it would be very interesting to see what happened if, say, Google sued Intel because from one day to the next, Google's electricity bills rise steeply, their servers crash, because the AC cannot handle the extra heat, ... , and Google demanded Intel pay for their damages. We live in very interesting times, indeed.