INTEL FAILS OUT TO SPECTRE MELTDOWN SOFTWARE
When software mitigation protections are not correctly implemented new Intel CPUs are vulnerable to both Meltdown and Spectre. It remains unclear if this will remain Intel's strategy throughout the next product cycle.Īre new intel CPUs vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre? All mitigation attempts and patches only target Meltdown and Spectre v2, because:įor the bounds check bypass method that's Spectre v1, Intel’s mitigation strategy is focused on software modifications. I don't know what "appearing" means in this context (announcement of new products or release of new products).Ĭonclusion: throughout 2018 anybody who plans to buy a new processor (or a new laptop/PC with a new processor) will have to take some security measures to secure themselves against Spectre and Meltdown IF the accompanying firmware or the OS has no proper protection against these vulnerabilities.Įdit: After the conversation with R. And those products will begin appearing later this year. We’re working to incorporate silicon-based changed to future products that will directly address the Spectre and Meltdown threats in hardware. Our near term focus is on delivering high quality mitigations to protect our customers infrastructure from these exploits. Intel's CEO stated the following in the earnings call for Q4 2017 To answer your question directly: Intel plans to fix this on a hardware level in 2018. You can easily cross-reference the list of affected products to the soon-to-be-launched ones. Most recent products have patches available, although not always functioning very well.
Spectre v1 was not entirely fixed with the latest patches. If you have some insights, please contact us at We would love to hear about them.The processors that were already announced and are about to be launched in the near future will still be vulnerable to both Spectre v2 and Meltdown if patches and/or firmware is not applied correctly. Given its huge data load we expect that we will see the greatest slowdown there.
INTEL FAILS OUT TO SPECTRE MELTDOWN FULL
Honestly I don't think anyone knows the full extent of the slowdowns, but the general wisdom so far is this: The patches come at the expense of processor slow downs. We at HPC will be rolling out those patches across the system in the next few weeks. You should be getting patches soon (or likely already have if you keep up to date with your updates) that will fix your personal machines. The main processor developers have known about them for some time and the revelation of the problem occurred only after approaches to deal with that vulnerability were identified. The second is a deep technical explanation of the issues.įirst, everyone will be getting patches to deal with these vulnerabilities. The first is a high-level description of the problem. It is a bit hard to explain exactly what is going on, but below are two links that might help: They appear to affect many modern processors including Intel, AMD and some ARM processors. By now you must have heard something about the colorfully named Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability.
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