Intel processors will get hardware fix for Spectre and Meltdown this year
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slyphnier
it sound like "double-edge sword" to me
by saying this, for IT people, intel basically kill all current product up until they release the fixed version.. indeed people dont know about this issue will still just buy / upgrade, but we are on internet era, dont think people that using pc/notebook didnt hear the news
on other side like someone posted already, it can make people upgrading when they release the fixed product
but again as this spectre/meltdown things is more "spying" things rather than other damaging effect, dont think most user will immediately upgrade to fixed product anyway... not especially if their pc is like 1-2years old ...
well i know this not a thing we should care, but lately intel like been ackward ...
like how they react to ryzen
tsunami231
No Company willing replace there product for ALL effect items when they can plug it with software updates , especial if "replacing" all those effect items in this case the cpu is gona cost billions of dollars. IF they cant fix the flaws with software update and or microcode it another story.
This effect ALL cpu maker including AMD/ARM it just Intel taking most heat for cause the big kid on block. Im not defending Intel or the other cpu makers cause its obvious at this point they all knew bout it for atlest a year and all choose to keep sell hw affect by it instead of halting sales till the pluged the hw flaw which if they did that this wouldnt be hot mess and they all wouldnt be in hot water, They only start to do something about AFTER someone leak all this on social media.
But also unrealistic for people to except CPU makes to replace device affected by this with new CPU free of charge when it affect cpu going back farther then 5 years. doing so would put majority of CPU maker out business. Intel might be able to survive, same cant be said of AMD. and it would almost be guarantee that if they did all survive doing this there prices for the new chips will be much higher so the can recover from that.
drac
So got myself an 8700k in Dec (for upcoming new build) and now wondering is it possible to not apply the patch/update that slows it down?
I'm not too worried about a security vulnerability especially now that chrome has added protection.
tsunami231
drac
user1
I think the bigger issue here is that microsoft has decided to depend on intel's nasty microcode hack, rather than implement retpoline, which for all intents and purposes appears to have a much smaller to no performance hit and mitigates spectre on basically everything except skylake(and newer) without a microcode update, you just have to recompile everything unfortunately, a pain yes , still a better solution for now and the future.
anything that doesn't get replaced is going suffer a sizable perf hit on wondows .
H83
Quite frankly i have a really hard time believing anything Intel says right now...
XP-200
It's a shame Intel are were not as quick off the mark to fix and make secure all these security issues that millions of intel CPU users now know they have because of a flaw in intels hardware, as their ceo and other high ups in the company were as to quickly dump their shares before these issues were made public. 😡
kegastaMmer
On a fantastical thought, if intel replaced all devices with compromised cpu for lets say, tier 4 i3 2 core, tier 3 i3 quad, tier 2 i5 quad, and tier 1, i7 hex , and refunded irreplaceables like i9 ir decacores , intel would lose a lot of money, but the market would be overrun and it could easily monopolise the whole world market. I'd say," go for it , intel. Show us you can! "wishful hat off"
Venix
drac
So when exactly are these “fixed” CPU’s going to land is the question...
user1
HeavyHemi
I'm getting my highest bench scores ever with both the OS and BIOS patched...weird eh? BTW, has there been a single report of this being exploited in the wild, ever?
Fox2232
user1
schmidtbag
fantaskarsef
HK-1
ZXRaziel
So right now they are stil selling cpus with a security flaw to the customers even after the information has leaked , besides the fact that they knew about the problem long before us and did nothing to fix it . Well done .
ZXRaziel