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Do you really think this was a screwup ? Intel is a company that has a highly hierarchical structure and a very thorough process of product development and mar
by HugoDaniel 9y ago
Do you really think this was a screwup ?
Intel is a company that has a highly hierarchical structure and a very thorough process of product development and market approach. Add to that that they are historically one of the key examples of a company that plans their strategy many years ahead and I find it way more sane to default Meltdown to a premeditated conscious decision/tarde-off of their part. Like VW emissions scandal but worse.
"We think long term at Epic. We're like Intel. We look at what we're going to do in five to ten years from now, and set our direction that way..." Tim Sweeney in a Kotaku interview 2011
- cjbprime 9y agoIt's not obvious (at least to me) that Meltdown is caused by a performance optimization. The fix to Meltdown introduces a pessimization, sure, but that's not necessarily the same thing. Meltdown could be a simple bug that doesn't incur a perf loss when designed for properly, but happens to require an expensive fix in the field. Does anyone know?