[Project] [Complete] "Get all the stuff out of my gaming PC and put it somewhere else"

[vivster]

WolfpackN64 said:

vivster said:

Yeah, they're being pretty stubborn. Though properly reacting to the issue could actually cost them quite a bit. Replacing every single Intel CPU out there is actually physically impossible. The least thing that they should do is to fix whatever next CPU generation is coming in hardware. But it looks like they're not even willing to do that, which is kinda sad. Stupid capitalism and its monopolies.

I hear you. Even their software solution for the vulnerability is stupid. Linus Torvalds had one of his famous rants on Intel's ineptitude. I hope it'll come back to bite them later on.

In my opinion all of that hullabaloo about Meltdown and Spectre is completely overblown, as are Linus' rants. I don't think CPU designers deliberately took security risks in their designs and I also don't think that AMD designers avoided that technology specifically to mitigate security risks. It's just something that CPUs evolved with. It's just impossible for humans to design something as complex as processors without any flaws or potential future risks. So instead of screaming at each other we should come to the table together and work on a proper solution instead playing the blame game.

I mean recently they discovered a problem with WPA2, which is about the same scale as Intel CPUs. The vulnerability  was in the protocol itself and not the software. So instead of everyone starting to rant abut the incompetent IEEE and their design, people just went and fixed the issue in software. Sure, it's easier to fix than Spectre 2 but at the same time Spectre 2 is also extremely difficult to exploit.