[hodgesrm]

Or give a price break on future hardware. The fix is turning out to be incredibly expensive for ordinary users, virtualization vendors, hardware vendors, OS providers, cloud providers, etc.

This incident demonstrates why you really don't want catastrophic bugs in the CPU. The fact that the hardware vendors missed this one makes you wonder what else is out there.

[gruez]

>Or give a price break on future hardware

feels like this would happen:

>intel agrees to give consumers a $30 price break in response to meltdown/spectre

>in other news, intel raises the prices of next generation CPUs by $30

[Dylan16807]

Make it $60 and I'll take that, all the better for them to get undercut by AMD.