If you strip away all the safety features of a car, the car will weigh quite a bit less, and thus be able to achieve better performance and gas mileage. Should

If you strip away all the safety features of a car, the car will weigh quite a bit less, and thus be able to achieve better performance and gas mileage. Should VW be allowed to market their cars as having that performance? Of course not, because no one should be driving their cars without a fire wall. So why is Intel allowed to market their 8 core chips as having 16 threads when in practice you need to disable hyperthreading? So there's a strong argument that Intel, which is currently marketing their chips this way, is committing fraud. Maybe it could be argued that Intel didn't previously commit fraud. But as soon as the bugs became known, and Intel continued to market their chips as having hyperthreading, from that point forward they were committing fraud.