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Intel's greatest PR success in this mess has been to conflate Meltdown with Spectre. Only Intel is affected by Meltdown because of their design, and it is a more easily exploited bug.
Meltdown is not only Intel. Some ARM and Apple designed ARM processors are affected by Meltdown as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerabili...
These symptoms are also the classic ones you get when you install an OS on a new-generation, well-functioning CPU.
the pulled out BIOS update files for 13th gen were released on 5th of Jan.
[1] http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln308588/micro...
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Meltdown is not only Intel. Some ARM and Apple designed ARM processors are affected by Meltdown as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerabili...
There are no products on the market shipping with the one ARM-designed processor affected by Meltdown.
Shipping or not, it illustrates, that Intel was not unique.
My broadwell (i5-2500k) windows desktop has started blue screening like crazy if I do large continous network transfers (i.e. saturating gigabit ethernet). I didn't have this problem before I rebooted for my most recent update. I thought it might be memory, but an 8+ hour memory scan (windows internal one, not the normal linux one) didn't tickle any bad bits and its not erorring in any unique component, each time, it…
That's Sandy Bridge, 3 generations older than Broadwell.
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Why should they bother communicating clearly with their customers? Who are those customers going to turn to? AMD? ARM? Between Intel's numerous CPU bugs that they refused to refund customers for and ME, it's crystal clear what Intel thinks about their customers.
Customers actually could turn to AMD... their offerings are very competitive right now.
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There are no products on the market shipping with the one ARM-designed processor affected by Meltdown.
I think that's mainly out of luck. If the exploit had been discovered two years later, the story would likely be different. Apple has been much more ambitious with their ARM processor designs and has shipping iOS and AppleTV products affected by Meltdown. Shipping or not, it illustrates, that Intel was not unique.
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Wow, that's a good point. "...the exploits uncovered by Google Project Zero" would be much, much more appropriate.
The "Intel CPU fundamental design defects uncovered by Google" is more like it.
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There are issues with this 'laptop' (don't put it on your lap is one), but AMD is a viable option I think.. https://imgur.com/Qsodtxv
> There are issues with this 'laptop' (don't put it on your lap is one) ouch, that is definitiv not a good issue... but well my mbp late 2013" gets hot as well.
It's not getting particularly hot in general, entirely depends on the use case. When I max out the cores or run a game? Quite hot. Otherwise: Mostly fine..
It's just unwieldy, big and heavy, hence not really useful on a lap..
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I think that's mainly out of luck. If the exploit had been discovered two years later, the story would likely be different. Apple has been much more ambitious with their ARM processor designs and has shipping iOS and AppleTV products affected by Meltdown. Shipping or not, it illustrates, that Intel was not unique.
Now can you argue that the given faulty design was not directly influenced by Intel conscious and deliberate bad decisions ?