A total disaster. From all I know, any thorough fix of the exploits of speculative execution will slow down the processers significantly. Unless the terms are j

A total disaster. From all I know, any thorough fix of the exploits of speculative execution will slow down the processers significantly. Unless the terms are just a terribly blunder (which would be bad enough on its own), this points to a rather big marketing nightmare to show up. First of all the bad PR for those terms, and of course, sooner or later there will be thorough benchmarks on the net. I would even guess, one of the larger hardware review sites will openly ignore the terms and run them and wait for Intel to sue them. I could not imagine such a law suit achieving anything but directing even more attention to that publication and the obtained results.