On 01/07/2018 02:46 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > I have several sandy/ivybridge CPU's and I was wondering if anyone > knows as to if intel is releasing microcode updates for them. > > It sure would be funny if intel wanted you to buy a new CPU to fix a > problem that was their fault to begin with. > > Do you remember the x87 bugs discovered in the original i586 Pentiums? Never fixed. Still built into every Intel CPU. Intel does NOT replace "defective-by-design" hardware. Instead, every OS is required to "software emulate" the FPU.
Search for "errata-not-bug". Intel's term for their screw-ups in their CPUs. Intel is only releasing patch code for the last five years of products. And ... if you read up on the "e-mails" being posted ... ... It looks as if Intel is NOT going to fix this in future CPUs either. Instead, every OS will be required to "work-around-this". Perhaps the reason "someone" tried to implicate this effects ALL CPU architectures? ( IBM RISC 6000, PowerPC, DEC Alpha, IBM System/390, Sun SPARC64, for example ) Intel did try to make their "patch" mandatory for AMD CPUs ( with NO disable switch ). Why? Think about it. Corbin
