[snuxoll]

Intel got a report about this vulnerability from Google in July. Intel's CEO decided to sell stock in November, scheduling the sale in October. Intel also decided to pull the Coffee Lake desktop launch in from early 2018 all the way back to the start of Q4 2017 to try stop the momentum AMD was building with Ryzen, while knowing this vulnerability was present - they're still planning on launching Cascade Lake the first half of this year and god knows if meltdown will be fixed in it or not.

Right now, I think the problem started out of ignorance - but they have abused Google's policy of responsible disclosure to hide the flaw as long as they could and take advantage of their market position while the unknowing public kept buying their products. Now they are pulling the four D's of propaganda in their PR statements all while we are seeing huge performance deltas in graphs from Epic and more?

This is straight up deceptive, I'm glad I switched back to AMD with my new gaming rig and I already have plans in the works to purchase multiple EPYC servers with our datacenter move starting next month.