[PragmaticPulp]

This depends on the C6 sleep state being enabled and the server not having been restarted for 3 years. It’s extremely unlikely that your cloud provider servers are going to meet this criteria and ignore this errata for a part they’ve bought thousands of.

So no, it’s not going to start randomly hitting people.

> Seems comparably problematic to me.

Not even close. The FDIV bug hit common operations that could be issued millions of times per second. This bug only applies to specific configurations that haven’t been rebooted for 3 years and has a clear workaround.

They’re not even close to comparable in impact and ability to work around. Literally many orders of magnitude different.

[gchamonlive]

Thanks for explaining the issue more! I must say I wasn't too familiar with Intel's issue when I wrote the comment.