[astrange]

How much care do you think it takes to design a CPU correctly? Remember, you can't patch out any bugs in it.

[NetMageSCW]

Intel patches out bugs in their CPUs all the time.

[astrange]

Yeah and they suck at it. They keep having to cancel entire features like MPX!

But to do this, Intel CPUs have updatable microcode, which is a feature that comes at a cost and which not all CPUs have.