Given that apple’s chips suck less power than intel’s, switching to A12 or whatever would be a step up for battery management.
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Intel Chips Have Memory Access Design Flaw and Fix Could Lead to Performance Drop
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Given that apple’s chips suck less power than intel’s, switching to A12 or whatever would be a step up for battery management.
A 30% drop in performance basically wipes out 7 years of progress.
The latter some may be able to prove, given they have enough financial resources to hire the right experts. As to the former, I think that that is where most of the class actions will come from. And that is where most will fail unless there are insider documents that suddenly come forth.
This is going to be a PR and financial nightmare for Intel. This is going to get really ugly. Will Intel be able to weather the storm? We shall see.
No it doesn’t. You have to compare to a thirty percent degraded 7 year old chip.
The price of PowerPC Macs on eBay quadrupled overnight!
Seriously curious.
For a general non-priority user, how likely is it to translate to real world loss of data?
For a general non-priority user, how likely is it to translate to real world loss of data?
Well let's see, Intel didn't issue an immediate recall of all unsold supply. So that would mean that they are currently selling products that they know to be defective. Further, the question has to be when did Intel learn of the issue. I bought my MBP 15 days ago. Lucky me, I'm exactly one day outside my return window. But I would be willing to bet quite a bit that they've known about this issue for much longer than that, considering that fixes for Windows and Linux are already underway. Think about it for a second, did Microsoft call in their Windows development team in the middle of Christmas to get started on this fix? It's far more likely that they got started before the holidays.
Finally, it is WAAY too coincidental that this news broke on the first business day of 2018.
It’s not loss, it’s stealing it. And once folks have a chance to weaponize this, chances are high.
It isn’t just that average Joe computer owner would suffer. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple and any company running servers would seriously suffer. This would cost them real money. So yeah, there would be a lawsuit, a huge lawsuit backed by some very wealthy companies.
let's wait and see, I'm sure there is more to come, what a bad way to start a new year, hope apple and Microsoft release a patch soon.What else can go wrong? Happy New Year, everyone.
Good thing I went with AMD on my latest PC build. I won't ever use Intel. Way too overpriced, and now this!
This proves PowerPC was not such a bad processor.. moving to intel seemed logical, but now we are seeing the beginning and end to Intel.
Slowdowns you say? Maybe my MBP will see improved battery life.
I get the joke - but odds are it'll be the opposite, since the solution is to replace a frequent process previously handled by hardware over to software.
And odds are this issue is going to affect the next couple iterations of Intel chips as well, given the hardware development lead times. Plus if Intel rushes a fix so the upcoming chips are unaffected, then odds are they'll screw something else up.
This is a huge deal. Thanks, Intel!
The news was out during the day and the stock finished higher.
Only people here think every negative news article will bankrupt billion dollar corporations over night.
Not saying this won’t be an issue, but people are overreacting as usual. They will fix it. Intel has good management.
