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I wonder if this will end with Intel selling a lot of new chips, or Intel having to issue massive recalls. I doubt Intel will be able to be able to get away wit

I wonder if this will end with Intel selling a lot of new chips, or Intel having to issue massive recalls. I doubt Intel will be able to be able to get away with discount/trade-ins without some serious legal complications. I doubt we'll see entire data centers move to AMD as that would get stupid expensive. For the short term, we might see data centers order extra AMD blades and changing their provisioning systems to pin high IO tasks to those machines. And that's for people who co-locate or host their own stuff. I'm interested to see how this affects Infrastructure providers who abstract a lot of that away, like AWS, DigitalOcean, Rackspace and others. They might even be working on analysis and auto-migration to move high IO nodes to higher performance machines transparently. It will be interesting to see what hosting providers start blogging about in the next few weeks.

kev009 9y ago
The first would set a strange precedent without some kind of good faith amends by intel, and so far they have signaled apathetic callousness. I think the legal implications haven't even begun to arise yet because large users are still scrambling to understand the impact and deal with what they have on hand. I speculate some kind of recall or prorate program will come out of it in time. Dieselgate is the closest thing I can think of recently where a product was marketed primarily on performance that was later rescinded through mechanical and/or software clamping. I wonder if there will be any FTC action for consumers. Separate from the above thoughts, intel was already testing customer patience with Skylake. It wasn't a substantial performance increase, but it was a substantial pricing increase. A lot of that, because, in merging the 4S (E5-4xxx) and 8S (E7) into one marketing line, a majority of users are paying big premiums for unwanted UPI scalability to get clock speed, cores, and caches they do want. They also gambled poorly on clamping I/O lanes to fight GPU, and with omnipath which is a niche at best. History will most likely judge Krzanich poorly. I expect AMD and IBM will have a good couple years coming up.

kev009 9y ago

The first would set a strange precedent without some kind of good faith amends by intel, and so far they have signaled apathetic callousness. I think the legal implications haven't even begun to arise yet because large users are still scrambling to understand the impact and deal with what they have on hand. I speculate some kind of recall or prorate program will come out of it in time. Dieselgate is the closest thing I can think of recently where a product was marketed primarily on performance that was later rescinded through mechanical and/or software clamping. I wonder if there will be any FTC action for consumers. Separate from the above thoughts, intel was already testing customer patience with Skylake. It wasn't a substantial performance increase, but it was a substantial pricing increase. A lot of that, because, in merging the 4S (E5-4xxx) and 8S (E7) into one marketing line, a majority of users are paying big premiums for unwanted UPI scalability to get clock speed, cores, and caches they do want. They also gambled poorly on clamping I/O lanes to fight GPU, and with omnipath which is a niche at best. History will most likely judge Krzanich poorly. I expect AMD and IBM will have a good couple years coming up.