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This would only be like the 50th time they have been caught doing this.. if true.

Archive: https://archive.today/rZGVx

From the post: "Benchmarks, while inherently contentious and not always representative of real-world performance, are an important tool in any kind of quantitative evaluation. That’s why nerds are obsessed with them. And not just nerds: companies use third-party benchmark results to make decisions on millions, sometimes billions of dollars in investment. So when someone finds evidence of a company putting its figurative thumb on the scale, it has the potential for big ramifications. Such is the case with some recent, and very specific, Intel Xeon CPU benchmarks."

This would only be like the 50th time they have been caught doing this.. if true. Archive: https://archive.today/rZGVx From the post: "Benchmarks, while inherently contentious and not always representative of real-world performance, are an important tool in any kind of quantitative evaluation. That’s why nerds are obsessed with them. And not just nerds: companies use third-party benchmark results to make decisions on millions, sometimes billions of dollars in investment. So when someone finds evidence of a company putting its figurative thumb on the scale, it has the potential for big ramifications. Such is the case with some recent, and very specific, Intel Xeon CPU benchmarks."

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I hate intel, mostly because of how they treat their consumers by forcing them into NDAs and not disclosing fatal bugs.

Here's a joke that illustrates:

Why is an Intel Pentium like a rabbit? They both can multiply and can't divide.

If you don't understand the joke, lookup the intel FDIV bug.

There are tons of other bugs in Intel silicone. Some of them brick the devices they're in too. As a corporation, they suck! They hate their customers and here's another shining example of the hate they have: lying about performance.

  • Transactional Synchronization eXtensions (TSX) Bug
  • Extended Page Table (EPT) Bug
  • F00F Bug
  • FDIV bug
  • Buggy HLT
  • Core-microarchitecture Bugs
  • 'Meltdown' Page Table Bug

The bug that really pissed me off was Intel Atom C2000 bug.

Yes, Intel is a jewish company and it shows.

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Oh man, that major bug with Intel Atom that would completely brick the system.. what a pain in the ass. Not only that, it was a chip used in a huge amount of SoHo level Synology units that could just randomly die out of nowhere.

Like you said, too many other stories like that to count.