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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."

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  1. wtf article? by pak9rabid · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the article:

    The Meltdown attack also affects chips from AMD and those based on ARM designs and, in turn, nearly every PC, smartphone and tablet made in recent years.

    What. the. FUCK! That couldn't be further from the truth. It's like Intel wrote this garbage piece of shit "article" for them.

    1. Re:wtf article? by amorsen · · Score: 4, Informative

      No. No they have not. Meltdown is an Intel-only thing except possibly for a few exotic ARMs.

      Spectre affects everyone.

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