Well supposedly the fix is going to cause a 5-30% slowdown—I think that might upset a few people.
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Intel Chips Have Memory Access Design Flaw and Fix Could Lead to Performance Drop
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This goes to support Apple's philosophy that you never create a back door ... people will eventually find it.
I met the fpu bug guy at a job interview. He was introduced to me as “here’s the fpu bug guy.” Poor guy.
Please not ARM just going back to the PowerPC days. So much open source software is not available for ARM that MacOS will suffer.
Note: this is not about the speed or tech that might be missing in the ARM chip. Apple's deal with Intel allowed sharing of CPU patents (Intel got access to Motorla/IBM/Apple PowerPC patents). This same agreement could give Apple access to Intel patents for the ARM chips.
1) arm CPUs are significantly simpler than x86-64, so less opportunity for bugs
2) Apple has better chip designers. I know many of them from my days at AMD and exponential and other companies. They’re very good.
3) if broken they can spin a fix faster
Unless Intel knew the flaw was there and shipped the processors anyways, I doubt there could be any way that this could have been avoided. All processors have some hidden flaws that may or may not have been discovered, even if Apple designed them. That said, if Apple made their own chips, there might have been more security measures tailored to Apple OS’s.
So this should warrant a massive class action suit just like Apple got on the power management controversy. Let's hope Apple can do a better job with the code without affecting performance then we can go around saying "My Intel is better than yours!" lol
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-Mike
It's only insider trading if he placed those sell orders in anticipation that this would come out. Executives typically schedule these things well in advance for that reason.
This is a real blow for intel. This could be the break Apple and AMD needs to really dent Intel's near monopoly. This could actually be a good thing for consumers overall in the long run.
And I'll be jumping ship soon thereafter, as I'm unwilling to give up my ENTIRE software library. AGAIN.
Wow, my wife summed it all up for me: "Wow, all these processors now have Alzheimers"
For Macs, the impact is unknown at this point.
Is the Intel CPU clock speed guaranteed (by Intel in writing) to perform at X speed in all applications for the end user? If there is such a guarantee from Intel for the original owner, a person might have standing. Otherwise, the plaintiff would have to show by a preponderance of the evidence, that Intel knowingly sold defective CPU's. And in doing so, perpetrated fraud on the consumer, as well as putting the consumer at risk or was the subsequent cause for said consumer to suffer financial harm etc.
I have no doubt that class action suits will be filed by the end of the week. Proving damages is a whole different legal story.
It's not a bug it's a feature!
Intel marketing execs: "Don't look at this as a problem. Look at it as an opportunity. Just think, our next generation processors that we release with the fix we will be able to market as being up to 30% faster than the current generation."
Whatchu talkin bout iPedro?
Apple never used AMD. Macs used to run on PowerPC chips built by Motorola and IBM.
It was known as the AIM Alliance (Apple-IBM-Motorola) in the 90's.
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Intel doesn’t guarantee any particular performance but they do advertise and market things like benchmarks and times for various tasks. Could be false advertising. Also could be exposure if anyone had their **** stolen because of it.
The flaw is so old that it even affects the currently selling Mac Mini!!!!
What else can go wrong? ....
Never ask that question.
I can see it now.... Macs with ARM inside, which require annual replacements to a non-user replaceable battery in order to maintain their advertised / original speed lest the CPU be throttled to avoid a random sudden shutdown that would otherwise result in a potential loss of user data.
Oh what fun ....