Re: A whole lotta "not just intel"
Not defending Intel here - but there's a difference between "refuse" and "cannot" that I think you're missing here.
All server chips? End of Intel and we haven't replaced them all yet, some aren't even still made for those older sockets that have these bugs.
Soldered-in laptop chips? Self righteous "ought to do the right thing" needs to consider what's even possible to do, Intel isn't a central bank that can print money and thereby cheat everyone else via inflation.
They just die - along with your pension fund that owns them - and other outfits with zillions of Intel chips running their worlds too. Then *you* die. Careful what you ask for.
So many people just don't understand how the world works, how things tie together.
It's lucky that it's damn unlikely Joe average home gamer will suffer from these - thinking you are important enough to deserve the effort required is vain as hell. There are other ways to get most anything about you that's wanted without using these tricks.
Many of us complained about the approach of ever more layers of cache, depth of pipelines, and speculative execution from the beginning, and we didn't even realize it could lead to this kind of bug back then. We were right...but we were objecting to "ugly can't be right" vs knowing just how it was gonna be wrong. Other ways should have been pursued and are being pursued that will gain performance and per-watt performance as they mature. We just wasted a decade going the wrong way.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
