[c12]

I could be very wrong but I read it as Intel trying to cover the fact that there are huge performance penalties with the patch enabled. Therefore Intel will continue to market chip performance sans patch while pushing down the responsibility of enabling them to OS vendors.

[yoz-y]

Aren’t most independant benchmarks run on OSes that are already patched?

[yorwba]

Not with those patches, since they haven't been merged yet. The performance decreases that have been reported so far are for Meltdown patches, those new patches are apparently meant to mitigate Spectre.

[dom96]

Spectre affects AMD as well, how have they been handling this?

[jessaustin]

They might not "handle" it until there is a POC?