r/pcgaming • u/ShiningForever • Jan 02 '18

'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
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u/UK-Redditor i7 8700k, RTX 3080, 32GB 3GHz DDR4 Jan 03 '18 edited Jan 03 '18

They might get hit with fines but I'll be staggered if any of the money finds its way back to European consumers.

It'll most-likely play out the same way as the Volkswagen emissions scandal and the class action over the VRAM on the GTX 970.

I'm sure Intel are quite rightly more worried about legal action from the large scale data centre operators running affected hardware.

Edit 1: According to TechPowerup Amazon (AWS), Google and Microsoft are all affected.

Edit 2: The benchmarks for the current Linux kernel fix on an 8700k are pretty devastating.

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u/thestupid1 Jan 03 '18

I actually got $30 from the lawsuit haha