A Windows XP help forum. PCbanter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » PCbanter forum » Windows 10 » Windows 10 Help Forum
Site Map Home Register Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

“Intel Chips Have a Major Design Flaw and the Fix Means Slower PCs”



 
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
  #1  
Old January 3rd 18, 09:06 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Lynn McGuire[_2_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 65
Default “Intel Chips Have a Major Design Flaw and the Fix Means Slower PCs”

“Intel Chips Have a Major Design Flaw and the Fix Means Slower PCs”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/358249/in...ix-means-slowe

“Over the next few weeks there’s a very good chance your PC or laptop is
going to take a significant performance hit. The worst case scenario
being it will get 30 percent slower. Worse than that is the fact you can
do nothing about it as the slow down is a side effect of fixing a major
design flaw in Intel processors.”

I cannot tell yet if this is a real problem or not.

BTW, I am wondering if this is another CIA backdoor.

Intel is gone. The class action on this one will force them into
bankruptcy as the flaw is apparently in all Pentium and newer Cpus.

Lynn
  #2  
Old January 3rd 18, 09:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Doomsdrzej[_2_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 262
Default Intel Chips Have a Major Design Flaw and the Fix Means Slower PCs

On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 14:06:30 -0600, Lynn McGuire
wrote:

Intel Chips Have a Major Design Flaw and the Fix Means Slower PCs

https://www.pcmag.com/news/358249/in...ix-means-slowe

Over the next few weeks theres a very good chance your PC or laptop is
going to take a significant performance hit. The worst case scenario
being it will get 30 percent slower. Worse than that is the fact you can
do nothing about it as the slow down is a side effect of fixing a major
design flaw in Intel processors.

I cannot tell yet if this is a real problem or not.

BTW, I am wondering if this is another CIA backdoor.

Intel is gone. The class action on this one will force them into
bankruptcy as the flaw is apparently in all Pentium and newer Cpus.


I'm looking forward to seeing whether there will indeed be a class
action lawsuit. Either way, this is more than enough for me to abandon
Intel with the next computer purchase. I've _always_ preferred AMD and
only begrudgingly accepted Intel in the computer I received as a trade
for my PS3 and the gaming laptop I purchased later on. I _never_
trusted them and it looks like I was right not to.

I can only hope that AMD starts taking gaming laptops more seriously
going forward. They've got some interesting mobile technology but
aren't very good at getting manufacturers to use it.
  #3  
Old January 3rd 18, 10:23 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 11,873
Default “Intel Chips Have a Major Design Flaw and the Fix Means Slower PCs”

Lynn McGuire wrote:
“Intel Chips Have a Major Design Flaw and the Fix Means Slower PCs”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/358249/in...ix-means-slowe


“Over the next few weeks there’s a very good chance your PC or laptop is
going to take a significant performance hit. The worst case scenario
being it will get 30 percent slower. Worse than that is the fact you can
do nothing about it as the slow down is a side effect of fixing a major
design flaw in Intel processors.”

I cannot tell yet if this is a real problem or not.

BTW, I am wondering if this is another CIA backdoor.

Intel is gone. The class action on this one will force them into
bankruptcy as the flaw is apparently in all Pentium and newer Cpus.

Lynn


This one (finally) adds a bit more context.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018...erous-patches/

A comment from the Ars article, points here.

https://www.computerbase.de/2018-01/...erheitsluecke/

Translated...

https://translate.google.com/transla...%2F&edit-text=

In the ComputerBase editorial office, the last used processor test
system was again used after the holidays with an Intel Core i7-7700K.
On a second SSD exactly the same benchmarks were loaded, but there
was not installed the Windows 10 Case Creators Update , but the latest
Insider Preview Build 17063 from 19 December 2017, in which the patch
is already active . The selected benchmarks do not depend on the
performance of the SSD.

Windows benchmarks: applications

In the six applications, there is almost no difference, only the
benchmark of 7-Zip, which runs in RAM, falls 2 percent behind
measurably lower.

Let's hope the 17063 didn't ship as an A versus B patch, with
only half the users having the KPTI patch enabled, for telemetry
and testing.

Paul
  #4  
Old January 3rd 18, 10:32 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Andy Burns[_6_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,318
Default “Intel Chips Have a Major Design Flaw and the Fix Means Slower PCs”

Paul wrote:

This one (finally) adds a bit more context.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018...erous-patches/


https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings

"Intel believes these exploits do not have the potential to corrupt,
modify or delete data"

So it just leaks data then, that's OK :-P

  #5  
Old January 3rd 18, 11:46 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 11,873
Default “Intel Chips Have a Major Design Flaw and the Fix Means Slower PCs”

Andy Burns wrote:
Paul wrote:

This one (finally) adds a bit more context.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018...erous-patches/


https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings


"Intel believes these exploits do not have the potential to corrupt,
modify or delete data"

So it just leaks data then, that's OK :-P


So the Intel P.R. machine is in low gear right now.

I'd hate to see it when it hits OverDrive.

And the stock market is conflicted. The stocks went
in the expected direction, but corrected later in the day.

Paul
 




Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off






All times are GMT +1. The time now is 05:54 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright 2004-2024 PCbanter.
The comments are property of their posters.