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by madars 2214 days ago
If history is any tell Intel allocated $475M pre-tax charge against earnings when they did Pentium FDIV replacements -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug . But I assume most people are more likely to raise a ruckus for potentially invalid computations, than for subtle potentially leaky computations.