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I just had a hard crash/reboot on a Dell running Windows 10 on an AMD processor, followed by a couple of auto updates. There was no indication of updates being available before the crash.
Out of curiosity, how do you suppose an Intel microcode update caused a blue screen on your system running an AMD processor?
This is -- to say the least -- frustrating. First, the busted microcode is still available on the Intel Download Center[1], without any warning that they recommend that you not, in fact, install it. Second, the press release is still being evasive: they have not merely "received reports"; they in fact know that it's causing issues, and the press release is avoiding the much stronger language that Intel is giving priv…
Why should they bother communicating clearly with their customers? Who are those customers going to turn to? AMD? ARM? Between Intel's numerous CPU bugs that they refused to refund customers for and ME, it's crystal clear what Intel thinks about their customers.
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The fixes weren't widely run until this week.
presumably because Intel does not have access to the necessary hardware configurations to test the fixes on?
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>Between Intel's numerous CPU bugs that they refused to refund customers for How do you propose this could work? Are side channel vulnerabilities in CPUs really bugs?
They promise modern process isolation and fail to deliver it. Their fixes reduce performance significantly. IANAL, but that sounds like a defective product.
Modern process isolation is not flawless, therefore it is not modern process isolation.
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Why should they bother communicating clearly with their customers? Who are those customers going to turn to? AMD? ARM? Between Intel's numerous CPU bugs that they refused to refund customers for and ME, it's crystal clear what Intel thinks about their customers.
Customers actually could turn to AMD... their offerings are very competitive right now.
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more frequent
With the implication that random reboots of a lesser, but non-zero frequency are okay, it's at least expected? Odd wording for sure.
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Why should they bother communicating clearly with their customers? Who are those customers going to turn to? AMD? ARM? Between Intel's numerous CPU bugs that they refused to refund customers for and ME, it's crystal clear what Intel thinks about their customers.
Customers actually could turn to AMD... their offerings are very competitive right now.
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The fixes weren't widely run until this week.
presumably because Intel does not have access to the necessary hardware configurations to test the fixes on?
Rush isn't a word I would use.