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by sidewndr46 1120 days ago
I'm way too young to remember it clearly but from what I was told it was nothing of the sort. Intel announced that they had identified a bug and would review on a case by case basis to see who was affected and would determine if you were worthy of getting a CPU that was fixed.

Again, this is secondhand but from people who worked directly in the industry at the time.