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'Next Generation' Flaws Found on Computer Processors (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Researchers have found eight new flaws in computer central processing units that resemble the Meltdown and Spectre bugs revealed in January, a German computing magazine reported on Thursday. The magazine, called c't, said it was aware of Intel's plans to patch the flaws, adding that some chips designed by ARM Holdings, a unit of Japan's Softbank, might be affected, while work was continuing to establish whether Advanced Micro Devices chips were vulnerable. Meltdown and Spectre bugs could reveal the contents of a computer's central processing unit -- designed to be a secure inner sanctum -- either by bypassing hardware barriers or by tricking applications into giving up secret information.
until the CPU manufacturers resolve this issue, if necessary will scour craigslist and second hand PC shops and buy used junk for cheap, no more high dollars spent on new desktops & laptops & tablets & phones until this CPU vulnerability issue is resolved in a proper and long term way
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CPUs have always had flaws and as a developer there was always an errata sheet you had to read and understand. The problem today is cloud computing and to some extent javascript. People are now running untrusted code on the same systems as their trusted programs. It was assumed that as long as your sandbox for these programs was secure and well defined that this was safe. Spectre and Meltdown proved this wasn't true.
Very possibly the next generation of Intel processors are going to be slower than the previous generation once they have to fix these architectural issues.