AMD Zen 2 processors get hardware level Spectre protection
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Fox2232
But QUOTE: 2017-06-01
The findings are shared with Intel, AMD and ARM. [1] footnote 1
But, do you have better solution? Trash every CPU, stop selling till they have fixed chips available?
Granted it is overdue...
fantaskarsef
kd7
"Intel will fix meltdown/spectre in hardware this year."
LOL
It isn't happening.
What Brian Krzanich said at the beginning of the conference call was just bait for intel stockholders:
"We're working to incorporate silicon-based changed to future products that will directly address the Spectre and Meltdown threats in ***hardware***. And those products will begin appearing ***later this year***."
Towards the end of the conference call, when asked by one of the analysts they changed/corrected that story:
"The only other think I'd add for Brian's comment earlier, we kind of go into the year realizing that it's an increasingly competitive environment and our focus is on right now continuing to bring the best highest performance products to market, but also to lots of time and energy spend on focusing on fixing those issue, primarily through ***software patches as opposed to short-term hardware*** things."
fantaskarsef
kd7
If they can redesign their cpus (pro or not) within a year then it doesn't make any sense at all that they only do it for a part of the market. They are all based on the same core architecture. It's all or nothing. Definitely nothing for this year, perhaps they will announce but the chances that we see any fixed cpus for any market in 2018 is 0.
kd7
PS by some definitions a microcode update is considered a hardware update. So the best we could see this year is cpus with the a new microcode pre-installed.
fantaskarsef
kd7
It is a fix "in hardware" 🙂
fantaskarsef
kd7
Fox2232
Alessio1989
kd7
Well explained, thanks. But, it seems obvious to me that a "software patch used at hardware level" is exactly what intel refers to when they say that Meltdown/Spectre will be addressed "in hardware" in "products" appearing this year. I don't think that the cpus themselves will have any hardware changes that directly address those issues.
jaggerwild
JamesSneed
asturur
For who is talking about phones, how many x86 phones are out there?
This patch affects just x86 architecture right? no arm no powerpc
user1
chispy
Welp , i will be skipping AMD Zen+ and stay with original Ryzen 1700x for a while longer since it does everything i needs absolutely fine and then some , so it is good to hear this news knowing that it is going to be fixed with Zen2 then 🙂 , Zen2 i will update from my current cpu.