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Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says

posted by mrpg on Saturday January 06 2018, @10:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the ??? dept.

"MrPlow" writes:

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Hoping the Meltdown and Spectre security problems might mean Intel would be buying you a shiny new computer after a chip recall? Sorry, ain't gonna happen.

Intel famously paid hundreds of millions of dollars to recall its Pentium processors after the 1994 discovery of the "FDIV bug" that revealed rare but real calculation errors. Meltdown and Spectre are proving similarly damaging to Intel's brand, sending the company's stock down more than 5 percent.

[...] But Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said the new problems are much more easily fixed -- and indeed are already well on their way to being fixed, at least in the case of Intel-powered PCs and servers. Intel said Thursday that 90 percent of computers released in the last 5 years will have fixes available by the end of next week. "This is very very different from FDIV," Krzanich said, criticizing media coverage of Meltdown and Spectre as overblown. "This is not an issue that is not fixable... we're seeing now the first iterations of patches."

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday January 06 2018, @07:26PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday January 06 2018, @07:26PM (#618852) Journal

    I don't keep up on the very latest in the CPU wars, so I can't really speak to "lower temperatures", but Intel with its own fabs and leading fab technology generally has had superior power consumption figures

    One problem is that like AMD and friends before it being stuck on the 28nm node for years (while AMD was also pushing out iterations of its crappy Bulldozer microarchitecture), Intel has been stuck [wikipedia.org] on 14nm for years. 10nm Cannonlake is finally coming sometime this year. It's not just the switch from "Tick-Tock" to "Process-Architecture-Optimization" [soylentnews.org], there is another year of delay thrown in [arstechnica.com].

    But the X-nm numbers are just numbers anyway. While Intel is quick to point out that their fabrication techniques are superior to the competition's [soylentnews.org], that might not matter if Intel is on 10nm, while GlobalFoundries (which makes the chips for AMD), Samsung and others are on "inferior" 7nm.

    AMD is rumored to be refreshing the Ryzen line with "12nm" [soylentnews.org] desktop chips around March [hothardware.com].

    Specifically on temperatures, I remember Skylake-X running hotter than AMD's Ryzen/Threadripper. Intel seemed to have rushed chips with higher core counts to compete with AMD dropping CPUs with 8-16 cores, 16-32 threads at cutthroat prices.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @06:26AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @06:26AM (#619034)

    You are a moron, an unadulterated, pure idiot. The subject was about Specter and Meltdown. NOT about who has smallest dick. Pay attention, shithead.