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All Intel processors have a bug
- Thread starter Jumi
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I think...it was probably not a bug. It was probably a feature that only Intel knew about, but I don't know what bug you are referring to. Just ignore my sass.
Lets look at it this way. Intel has lots, and lots of secret CPU instructions that are not explained to the public, not put into the manuals. How are we supposed to know the difference between those and an actual bug.
Jumi
Well-Known Member
It could have been a hidden feature, who knows? But it brought them big trouble this time, so it's called a design flaw now. Microsoft and Linux developers are working overtime fixing the problem, I think the Linux kernel patch name . Probably same with Apple.
Wow. I guess its time to switch over to my Rasberry Pi.
Jumi
Well-Known Member
I haven't had the time to read up on it in detail yet, but it sounds like this might be an unintended headache. Maybe also the reason why the Intel CEO sold his stocks half a month ago...
Jumi
Well-Known Member
Don't see much of a difference in web browsing.
Might have to invest in some cooling if you switch to RPi completely. 
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Meh...there are software and hardware security patches all the time. Someone finds a bug, hopefully a researcher working for the company who comes up with a patch to fix it. Otherwise it is a black hat who exploits is and a patch is developed after the fact...the latter being the worse of the two
Another thought is that it increases sales for Intel, since the processors are suddenly less powerful. As Intel has most of the market this could be good for them.
There's not a lot of detail here... Any links?
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
Or go back to a Commodore 64
It's not likely a bug, per se, or as techies prefer to call them, "an undocumented feature".
AMD benefits since the flaw is an Intel flaw.
I read that a young female intern at Intel discovered that they had red in the green line and a green in the yellow line and yellow in the red line. What a mess.. Now the code has to be rewritten to accommodate it. The chip was becoming too much like our brains with the beads all scrambled up.
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True that. I wonder if RISC processors will ever beat out the Intel chipset? Its already in graphics cards, and I really do not like having secret processor tricks in my computer that has a camera pointed at my room.
Jumi
Well-Known Member
Some who are in security tape up the cameras on their computers and on their phones. I'm personally not too bothered if half the world watched me - they'd die of boredom soon enough. I'm not the one most likely to be a target, far from it.
And I also subscribe to the security philosophy - don't have the weakest system so that those who try to attack me give up and try someone else who is less protected.
Risc processors lack an articulated thumb. They can do some tasks but without a thumb they have limitations. Now if they evolve a thumb watch out.
Here's my view on CPUs. Moore's law is slowing down for them because processor speeds cannot go higher due to electrical restrictions of copper based wiring. That's why we have clock speeds still stuck at giga hertz. To go faster would require a different medium or at different operating conditions outside of room temperature. To alleviate this, CPU designers have invested more in parallel computing which is basically adding more processors on the same die. Or it builds in other functionality into the die to reduce bottlenecks inherent with peripherals like main memory, cache, drive memory, GPU, Wifi, Display and so on. It could also go beyond 64 bits to 128 or even higher, but this requires a huge shift in OS design and so on.
Not sure if I'm helping but CPU slowing down is not because of design flaws as suggested.
Not sure if I'm helping but CPU slowing down is not because of design flaws as suggested.
Risc chips that can hitchhike I like it.
Yep.
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Yep and if That happens watch out, douglas Adams suddenly becomes a prophet and we are eliminated as a planet to make way for a galactic freeway.
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