On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 04:48:13PM -0500, Andrew Paolucci via talk wrote: > I believe from what is bouncing around the internet the upcoming line of > Intel Processors this year will still have the physical bug and the software > patch is seen as the "fix" for the foreseeable future. I was hoping for a > refund/return program similar to the Pentium floating point bug. If you are > willing to keep supporting Intel after this snafu I don't see a point in > waiting unless it's for new tech, not secure tech. AMD is a solid option > moving forward though, no hidden network stack or Minx OS onboard.
I think a big difference is that when the FDIV issue was found, the pentium was still a current in production CPU. Swapping them out was an option. I am pretty sure intel isn't making Pentium Pro processors on a 350nm process anymore. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
