It might put a dent in chip sales once they announce a chip which has been fixed. And this can create some future demand.
But who goes around buying computers just for the hell of it? If you need a computer, you are still going to buy a computer. IMHO. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 1:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Are the Meltdown/Spectre reg keys needed for workstations? That’s going to put a real dent in chip sales I suspect. I know I’d personally be holding off any purchases until new non-vulnerable chips are available if I have any choice. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 1:10 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Are the Meltdown/Spectre reg keys needed for workstations? If they have, I’m not aware of it. I expect it’s too late even for the next-gen chips, given how long it takes to design a new chip and fab it. Maybe some time in 2019? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 11:11 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Are the Meltdown/Spectre reg keys needed for workstations? My question to that statement, is: Have any of the chip manufacturers given a timeframe of when new, fixed, processors will be released? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 6:26 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Are the Meltdown/Spectre reg keys needed for workstations? Not going to happen. It’s going to require new processors. Everything being released is a mitigation, not a “fix”. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Ziots Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4:27 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Are the Meltdown/Spectre reg keys needed for workstations? It would be nice if intel and amd released.processor or bios.firmware update to.fix the flaw.once and all. On Jan 9, 2018 2:24 PM, "Michael Leone" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Here's something (more) I am confused about. Suppose I have Win 7 and Win 10 workstations, and I have properly patched the OS. Do I *also* need to issue the 2 (or is it 3) registry entries? I *thought* the registry entries were only for servers, but I have seen other statements that say that the Meltdown/Spectre fixes are *not* enabled until you issue the registry entries. So without the reg entries, you are effectively unpatched? The patches are there, but dormant? (neither of my home PCs have BIOS updates issued - one is for a very old Dell Optiplex 755 that I only use to connect to a NAS, and the other is one I assembled from parts back in 2011. Neither has has had a BIOS upgrade released in years. Ah, the joy ....)
