Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs
by blihp on Monday October 08, 2018 @01:13PM
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Not letting them off, just trying to set realistic expectations. I'm not in chip design, but everything I've seen on the subject suggests that 2-3 years from design to fabrication is the general (minimum) ETA on architectural fixes. The testing needs to be extensive or they risk releasing a worse problem to the world.
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They were aware of these bugs for (at least) 16 months. They could delay releasing new chips until they addressed the problem, even if it took them another year. They did not. Instead, they released a chip with a widely known critical vulnerability. That's on them.
Metldown is already fixed by software. So their hardware fixes will just improve performance in some workloads and those workloads are typical for servers, I know that on my PC meltdown fixes did not affect performance in any noticeable way.