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Intel Plans To Release Chips That Have Built-in Meltdown and Spectre Protections Later This Year (businessinsider.com)
Intel plans to release chips that have built-in protections against the Spectre and Meltdown attacks later this year, company CEO Brian Krzanich said during company's quarterly earnings call this week. From a report: The company has "assigned some of our very best minds" to work on addressing the vulnerability that's exploited by those attacks, Krzanich said on a conference call following Intel's quarterly earnings announcement. That will result in "silicon-based" changes to the company's future chips, he said. "We've been working around clock" to address the vulnerability and attacks, Krzanich said. But, he added, "we're acutely aware we have more to do."
INTEL: we've assigned some of our very best minds to developing new chips with built in protections
Slashdotters: what about the 8 generations of chips that do not have such protections and in fact require massive performance losses to protect?
INTEL: very...best...minds.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Our CPUs cannot be fixed with software. You are going to need to buy a new CPU.
intel wanting to make future chips "Fast but insecure" by default, and requiring the BIOS or OS to tell the CPU "No bitch, secure mode only please", just so they could continue to claim benchmark scores (naturally, with the anti-spectre and meltdown patches disabled so the chip runs really fast.)
Which is effectively the VW-emissions-scandal school of benchmarking.