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by forgotpw2018 3085 days ago
Exactly why. Even if the performance impact is 3%, that means the world has lost maybe 2% of its CPU power overnight. That's an utterly massive amount of hardware, many billions of dollars, maybe a trillian.

It's not just the cost of the processors, but everything that contains them. Truly 'fixing' all the affected products would bankrupt a county but we should get a refund for the CPU's at the least