Intel Gags Customers from Publishing Performance Impact of Microcode Updates

Much of the secret sauce that made Intel processors faster than AMD is going sour, as the cybersecurity community is finding gaping security vulnerabilities by exploiting features such as speculative execution. Intel's microcode updates that mitigate these vulnerabilities impact performance. Intel isn't too happy about public performance numbers put out by its customers, which it fears could blunt

[yyamano]

You will not, and will not allow any third party to ... (v) publish or provide any Software benchmark or comparison test results.

[mkusunok]

うわー、これって隠したくなるほど不都合な性能低下があるんでしょうね

[mongrelP]

さすがに法的にあかんのでは。