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

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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."

Source: Nope, no Intel chip recall after Spectre and Meltdown, CEO says


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday January 07 2018, @02:33AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday January 07 2018, @02:33AM (#618977) Journal

    Zen 2 is 7nm, expected 2019, Zen+ is the 12nm.

    By then there should be no Spectre in AMD, and no whatsit in Intel. Let's hope.

    AMD more than delivered on Zen 1 IPC. Promised a 40% increase, delivered something like 52%. They have said that the initial Ryzen was a "worst case scenario" due to it being a new architecture on a new process. I don't think I've seen any particular estimates on the IPC increase between Zen 1 and Zen 2, but it should be interesting. They might also increase core counts.

    Zen 3 is on the roadmap.

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