<story><title>Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking Ban</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-microcode-benchmark-mitigation,37684.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cesarb</author><text>I saw a tweet somewhere (IIRC in the anandtech sidebar, unfortunately I&amp;#x27;m not finding it right now) where the poster speculated that it was the EULA for a beta version of the microcode which leaked into the final version.</text></item><item><author>kev009</author><text>How do you gaffe this bad?  How is someone that incompetent in the decision making loop?  Some random engineer creating the ucode or uploading it to the web doesn&amp;#x27;t come up with this kind of idea to change license language.  These are edicts from management.  I&amp;#x27;d love for that conversation to leak in full.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>that was Ryan smith. chief editor of anandtech.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;RyanSmithAT&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1032546813176307712&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;RyanSmithAT&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1032546813176307712&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and if it was true they would have said so in their reply.</text></comment>
<story><title>Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking Ban</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-microcode-benchmark-mitigation,37684.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cesarb</author><text>I saw a tweet somewhere (IIRC in the anandtech sidebar, unfortunately I&amp;#x27;m not finding it right now) where the poster speculated that it was the EULA for a beta version of the microcode which leaked into the final version.</text></item><item><author>kev009</author><text>How do you gaffe this bad?  How is someone that incompetent in the decision making loop?  Some random engineer creating the ucode or uploading it to the web doesn&amp;#x27;t come up with this kind of idea to change license language.  These are edicts from management.  I&amp;#x27;d love for that conversation to leak in full.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walterbell</author><text>Helpful side-effect of this leak: benchmark public reaction.</text></comment>