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Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

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Re: Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

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Post by kongbtc »

swarnie_ wrote: post #7
Havoc wrote: post #2

As a shareholder that's great. Concerned that this is a very fragile win though. I don't think there will be much real world fall out.

How you hold this stock is a mystery to me. With it bouncing between $10 and $15 constantly last year it just seems far to volatile. I'd be panic buying / selling every day to adjust which seems stressful... Maybe why its a favorite of /r/wallstreetbets

try trading crypto

Re: Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

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Post by willvarfar »

NinjaKitten wrote: post #3

"Intel has a bug that lets some software gain access to parts of a computer’s memory that are set aside to protect things like passwords." Seems like very little got through to the media about the details regarding this flaws effects and costly workaround.

in this particular case, will the generalization help their readership?

I actually think it will - it would be easy to give more accurate details that cause many readers to glaze over.

Re: Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

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Post by swarnie_ »

kongbtc wrote: post #11
swarnie_ wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How you hold this stock is a mystery to me. With it bouncing between $10 and $15 constantly last year it just seems far to volatile. I'd be panic buying / selling every day to adjust which seems stressful... Maybe why its a favorite of /r/wallstreetbets

try trading crypto

Ill stick to blue chips and paper trading. The NHS can only hand out so much heart medication...

Re: Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

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Post by Havoc »

swarnie_ wrote: post #7
Havoc wrote: post #2

As a shareholder that's great. Concerned that this is a very fragile win though. I don't think there will be much real world fall out.

How you hold this stock is a mystery to me. With it bouncing between $10 and $15 constantly last year it just seems far to volatile. I'd be panic buying / selling every day to adjust which seems stressful... Maybe why its a favorite of /r/wallstreetbets

>/r/wallstreetbets

Guilty as charged.

>I'd be panic buying / selling every day to adjust which seems stressful...

Just treat it as numbers on a screen rather than money. Keeps the emotions at bay.

Re: Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

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Post by FBISurveillance »

db48x wrote: post #4
Havoc wrote: post #2

As a shareholder that's great. Concerned that this is a very fragile win though. I don't think there will be much real world fall out.

If all Intel CPUs get 30% slower overnight, then there will be some fallout in the real world.

They might be 30% slower in virtualization and should be about 5-7% slower in real world usage. As a heavy user of the cloud I'm worried about my infra more than about my laptop: if my cloud setup gets even 7% slower overnight it won't be good to say the least, especially with lower-clock 2Ghz Skylake GCP CPUs.

Those 5--7% will make me feel like I'm powered by Atom and it will be even worse for single-core bounded workloads in the cloud.

Re: Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

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Post by Waterluvian »

littlestymaar wrote: post #13

Interestingly enough, Intel and AMD market values are affected by this but the cloud provider aren't, which I find surprising.

Hm. Do cloud providers need to provide up to 30% more capacity for the same price, or do customers need to purchase up to 30% more capacity to get the same speed?

Re: Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

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Post by dsign »

This is a clusterf/big deal. Beyond the security implications, it means that all companies paying for computing resources will have to pay roughly 30% more overnight on cloud expenses for the same amount of CPU, assuming that they can just scale up their infrastructure.

I know that bugs happen and that there was nothing intentional on this one, but at times like this is hard to held at bay the temptation of claiming for a class lawsuit against Intel....

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