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Jim Shankland wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if Intel has responded to this problem?  Sorry to
> be repeating myself, but to my mind this is a far more severe bug
> than the obscure floating point bug several years ago that knocked
> billions off Intel's market cap.  If they did, in fact, quietly fix
> the bug at some stepping without telling anyone, that would appear to
> be a return to the modus operandi that they so publicly abandoned
> after the FP brouhaha.
> 
> Jim Shankland
> Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.

cnet have just reported the bug..
they said that intel said 
"no comment"