Linus Tolvald explains that the reason why Intel looks like a cheese, apparently abused the speculative performance to increase performance at the expense of security and all that to beat Athlon and Phenom at the time, the funny thing is that if we review a little of its history this seems quite normal, see the case with Pentium where its more expensive model was 30% slower than an Athlon with half the price and up to 40% slower than the most expensive Athlon; So to sell them they went on to bribe the OEMs and sabotage the compilers that worked with AMD," sometimes I have to wonder if Intel is as innovative as they say.<br><br><br>Only that Intel leaves Core and makes a new architecture will be saved from this and surely there are many more because Intel knew this fault for months and was informed to 7 months (when by rule is given maximum 3 months and then made public ) apparently did not intend to make it public at some point and still now try to minimize the seriousness of the vulnerability with bribes to researchers: <a href=""https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19913858"">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19913858</a>"