It's funny, since many of today's software bugs are due to the legacy of C, faults of which can often times be attributed to mimicking the behaviour CPU hardware too closely.

EDIT: My wording was poor, but what I meant was that it's not like hardware vendors do not make bugs happen due to deficiencies in their design, which are not only tolerated, but often reflected in software, which runs counter to OP saying that apparently hardware vendors are not allowed to have bugs, but the software ones are:

> So it's okay for software to have bugs that get fixed (I think everybody here acknowledges that software will always have bugs), but Intel isn't allowed to have issues in their processors