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Gamers desert Intel in droves, as Steam share plummets from 81% to 55.6% in just five years (www.club386.com)
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[–] 35 points 10 months ago (3 children)

All of the exploits against Intel processors didn't help either. Not only is it a bad look, but the fixes reduced the speed of the those processors, making them quite a bit worse deal for the money after all.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Meltdown and Spectre? Those also applied to AMD CPUs as well, just to a lesser degree (or rather, they had their own flavor of similar vulnerabilities). I think they even recently found a similar one for ARM chips...

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Only one affected AMD, forget which. But Intel knew about the vulnerabilities, but chose not to fix the hardware ahead of their release.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Yea that definitely sounds like Intel... Though it's still worth pointing out that one of them was a novel way to spy on program memory that affects many CPU types and not really indicative of a dropped ball. (outside of shipping with known vulnerabilities, anyways)

    ... The power stuff from 12/13th gens or what ever though... ouch, massive dropped ball.

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