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It's funny how they had to recall the CPUs (even if they tried to make it harder), and now, with all the security issues (from spectre to downfall), where the p
by ajsnigrutin 3y ago
It's funny how they had to recall the CPUs (even if they tried to make it harder), and now, with all the security issues (from spectre to downfall), where the patches cause a massive CPU performance hit, noone is yelling for a recall.
- jansan 3y agoI would rather call it "noteworthy" than "funny".
- H8crilA 3y agoVolkswagen also pretty much got away with selling cars that do not reach power specifications (if you remove the environmental problem).
- toast0 3y agoI don't know about outside the US, but in the US, they had to offer to buy back the cars and/or modify them to fit the environmental spec. I don't know about power specs, but the mileage specs were done under the compliant engine control regime; so post modification you would get mileage to spec as opposed to the better mileage available earlier. The buy back option was based on pricing before the news broke and for a good condition vehicle, there was an adjustment for odometer miles, but the vehicle could be in any condition, just had to run and move on its own power. They were not permitted to resale purchased vehicles anywhere globally unless they were modified to properly comply with emissions controls. And they were forced into selling EVs and building a charging network. Maybe that will work out for them, maybe not.
- ghaff 3y agoWell, the "solution" to side channel attacks (including those that haven't been discovered yet) on pretty much every out-of-order execution processor out there, which is to say pretty much every high performance processor, is to disable a lot of features and significantly throttle them--which no one really wants to do.
- wnoise 3y agoI do. I want my hardware to do exactly what it gets told to do, and nothing else. A pity that that's basically impossible these days.