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How much will the meltdown patches cost the industry in electricity?

1 points| ashtonian | 8 years ago | reply

based on the performance penalties

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[+] [-] 534b44a|8 years ago|reply
Even though CPUs have been made more power efficient the last decade, I've read that there'll be a performance reduction of 30-50% on the intel ones.
[+] [-] ashtonian|8 years ago|reply
I thought it was more like 20-30% for specific applications, mostly database stuff.
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