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<p>I'm more curious to know which versions of Intel's upcoming chips have been fixed already. I would like to upgrade my current workstation in the next year and will stick with Intel despite any performance impact over AMD.</p>
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<p>On 2018-01-03 00:43, Aaron Jones wrote:</p>
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<div>I read the performance hit for Intel chips will be %35 or so after the fix. </div>
<div><br />On Jan 2, 2018, at 7:49 PM, Eric Oyen <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br /><br /></div>
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<div>so, does this mean that the UEFI might get patched first? OR, does the OS ecology have to do so first? Lastly, how much of a performance hit will this represent?
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<div>from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, the "oh look! yet another bug!" Dept.</div>
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<div>On Jan 2, 2018, at 3:39 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><br /><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/</a><br /><br />In a nutshell, it is a major security flaw in Intel hardware dating back a decade that is requiring a complete kernel rewrite for every major OS (Linux, Windows, Mac, etc) in order to patch out. It cannot be patched out with a CPU microcode update. Major enough that code comments are redacted in the patches until an embargo period is expired. Also the reported fix will have a huge performance impact.<br /><br />Also crucial to note is that AMD chips are not affected by this.<br /><br />How the heck does something like this go unnoticed for so long?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sent from <a href="https://protonmail.com/">ProtonMail</a>, Swiss-based encrypted email.<br /><br /></blockquote>
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