Post by tanephar on Jan 5, 2018 23:25:48 GMT
FYI Peeps
This doesn't seem to have made much of an impact on main stream media, but it is something I have been aware of for 3 or 4 days. There is a serious security flaw in all Intel Processors manufactured in the last 10 years. All OS suppliers are working on software fixes as this cannot be address through micro-coding in a firmware update for these CPU's. The patches will be coming online by next Tuesday from all accounts and it appears there will be a significant hit on speed. Forecasting 17-30% impact at this time, but until this hits real world situations the true impact will not be known. Most servers, cloud servers, Mac's run Intel CPU's so this is going to have significant global consequences.
Personally the 3 PC's I run and have built myself all run AMD CPU's and chipsets. Shame on Intel writing such flawed architecture code for their products.
If you want to know more head here: www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
This doesn't seem to have made much of an impact on main stream media, but it is something I have been aware of for 3 or 4 days. There is a serious security flaw in all Intel Processors manufactured in the last 10 years. All OS suppliers are working on software fixes as this cannot be address through micro-coding in a firmware update for these CPU's. The patches will be coming online by next Tuesday from all accounts and it appears there will be a significant hit on speed. Forecasting 17-30% impact at this time, but until this hits real world situations the true impact will not be known. Most servers, cloud servers, Mac's run Intel CPU's so this is going to have significant global consequences.
Personally the 3 PC's I run and have built myself all run AMD CPU's and chipsets. Shame on Intel writing such flawed architecture code for their products.
If you want to know more head here: www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
