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

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is the closest thing I can think of recently where a product was marketed primarily on performance that was later rescinded through mechanical and/or software clamping.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.