On 10/01/2018, Gerald Henriksen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 18:26:54 +0000, you wrote: > >>but I really don't know if it's just an Intel lie at this point (wouldn't >> be the first one on this fiasco... maybe they just want to avoid a >> recall) > > Like it or not, everything coming out of Intel on this will likely > have gone through their lawyers with the aim of limiting any legal > damage, and thus truth loses. It is the way of the world. > > As for the idea of a recall*, won't happen. As pointed out elsewhere, > this involves 20+ years of processors. Intel has neither the money > nor the fab capabilitity to implement a recall of that many > processors. > > > * - certain select users may get deals made for new processors, things > like the supercomputer clusters, where the number of processors is > relatively small but there is a possible big impact. >
"As pointed out elsewhere, this involves 20+ years of processors." Seeking clarification - I understood, from all of the reports, from multiple sources, that I have seen, that it applies to "all processors manufactured in the last ten years". Please clarify. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
