I bet Google isn't so giddy now about being FIRST!! [1] with Skylake in the data center a couple of years ago, or "going on all-in" with Intel on the Chromebook

I bet Google isn't so giddy now about being FIRST!! [1] with Skylake in the data center a couple of years ago, or "going on all-in" with Intel on the Chromebooks (it didn't even give AMD a chance until very recently...), despite Chrome OS being one of the very few operating systems that are truly architecture agnostic. Now it's paying dearly for that mistake, with up to 40% performance loss on Chromebooks due to the disabling of HT: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/mds-vulnerabilities-lead-chrome-os-74-to-disable-hyper-threading/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/mds-vulnerabilities-lea... Google broke one of the most basic business rules: never rely on a single supplier. You're always worse off in the end, even if the exclusivity deals seem very tempting in the short-term. [1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/compute-engine-updates-bring-skylake-ga-extended-memory-and-more-vm-flexibility https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/compute-engine-up...