Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Intel Plans To Release Chips That Have Built-in Meltdown and Spectre Protections Later This Year (businessinsider.com)

Posted by msmash on from the next-up dept.

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."

6 of 154 comments (clear)

  1. Fool me thrice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From the people who brought you F00F, FDIV, and now Meltdown? No thanks.

  2. So in the end by fisted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So in the end, Intel is going to make a shitton of money on Meltdown and Spectre because everybody is supposed to buy their new, fixed CPUs

    --
    CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
  3. Hopefully it will be secure by default... by wierd_w · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I a reminded of Torvald's scathing emails about Intel, their proposed patch sets, and how they pointed toward 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.)

    Hopefully these silicon level fixes are *ACTUAL* fixes to the methodology used by the speculative execution implementation of the chip, so that speculative execution still is active, but the chip no longer leaves bits and pieces in the processor cache that can be exploited, and that it does this by default.

    Hopefully.

  4. Why only now ? by Alain+Williams · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This was know about at least 7 months ago, there have been stories about side channels longer than that. So: why have they only got their 'best minds' working on it now ?

  5. Fuck off cunt, Meltdown is Intel only by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Intel cheated to get better benchmarks, AMD didn't.

  6. Intel: Years of insufficient management. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "From the people who brought you F00F, FDIV, and now Meltdown? No thanks."

    Intel has had many years of insufficient management, in my opinion.

    It is not difficult to find evidence of insufficient management at Intel. Yesterday I got 2 poorly considered, poorly written marketing emails from Intel.

    More evidence of insufficient management: Intel's CEO reportedly sold shares after the company already knew about massive security flaws

    Will Intel be allowed to PROFIT from many years of producing processors with vulnerabilities? Will Intel be treated like U.S. banks in 2008, when many banks profited and many finance system managers got bonuses after the financial crash?

    If vulnerabilities are profitable, would Intel deliberately allow vulnerabilities in its products? Were the previous vulnerabilities deliberate? Maybe the CEO didn't previously know about the vulnerabilities. Did someone else at Intel profit from the vulnerabilities?