All Intel CPU from last 10 years may have a security flaw

Debbie_Savard

Huge Intel CPU Bug Allegedly Causes Kernel Memory Vulnerability With Up To 30% Performance Hit to fix

It appears that Intel might have a pretty severe chip-level security bug on its hands that cannot be simply swatted away; the bug affects all modern Intel processors dating back at least a decade

Fixing this vulnerability in software also comes with a worst-case performance handicap of 30 percent or more.:eek:

That shiny new PC you got for Xmas is already obsolete, if there's Intel inside (tm)

Stoke

Intel have been garbage for years (imo). Nothing new this. The only reason AMD aren't storming ahead is because they've not been great either.

agrinnall

Debbie_Savard wrote: »

That shiny new PC you got for Xmas is already obsolete, if there's Intel inside (tm)

It's only obsolete if there's a viable alternative at a similar price - is there?

RumRat

Debbie_Savard wrote: »

That shiny new PC you got for Xmas is already obsolete, if there's Intel inside (tm)

Hardly....It always amazes me how much sensationalism is applied to anything to do with technology.
Joe public will notice little, if any, difference, as with most crises in the tech world.

DoaM

Debbie_Savard wrote: »

That shiny new PC you got for Xmas is already obsolete, if there's Intel inside (tm)

If you read the updates to that very article you linked you'll see that (for Linux at least, so far) it doesn't matter whether the CPU inside is Intel or AMD.

Cisco001

DoaM wrote: »

If you read the updates to that very article you linked you'll see that (for Linux at least, so far) it doesn't matter whether the CPU inside is Intel or AMD.

it looks like linux release the patch which affect both intel and amd?

I wonder if amd actually have same fault.
If not, is MS going to release a patch apply for intel only?

Stoke

DoaM wrote: »

If you read the updates to that very article you linked you'll see that (for Linux at least, so far) it doesn't matter whether the CPU inside is Intel or AMD.

So just recompile your own kernel without the patch.

pappa_golf

I upgraded my amstrad pc1512 from a 8086 to a V30 , am I safe?

agrinnall

pappa_golf wrote: »

I upgraded my amstrad pc1512 from a 8086 to a V30 , am I safe?

Is it safe?