Meltdown and Spectre
- Thread starter Sushubh
- Start date
- Tags amd arm cve-2017-5715 cve-2017-5753 cve-2017-5754 google intel meltdown microsoft spectre
software flaws are fixable. but intel processors. all of them. are not fixable. and software based fixes would reduce performance by as much as 30%. so unless intel promises to replace all these processors for free, they are liable for selling products that would not deliver the performance customers paid for. samsung got sued for batteries purchased from a third party. they replaced/refunded all phones free of cost. intel of course is in no position to replace potentially billions of processors. plus they do even seem to have processors in production which are free of this flaw. so even the new processors being sold today in the market are affected by this flaw and they would continue to be sold for months if not years.
one of the two issues cannot be fixed from what i read. fix for the second issue would drop performance by up to 30% on some tasks. forget regular people... intel would get sued by Amazon , rackspace, google and every single datacenter company that would find itself with inadequate performing servers after the fixes are implemented. i would need to upgrade my own hosting if the performance hit is significant. this would potentially affect every single computer user in the world.