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[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42553818 ]www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42553818[/url]
Intel has not yet released the details of the vulnerability, but it is believed to affect chips in millions of computers from the last decade.
The effects of the updates to Linux and Windows could incur a performance slowdown of between five and 30 percent
Great! Oh well AMD seem to be winning the CPU race anyway at the moment; maybe that's the way to go when it's next time to upgrade!
Hardly a feather in Intel's cap though. If I remember correctly Intel embarrassed themselves decades ago when not long after the release of the first Pentium CPU things had to be patches as the arithmetic unit didn't work correctly (the joke going around at the time was [i]"how many Intel engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? 3, 1 to hold the ladder and 1 to screw in the lightbulb"[/i]).
Posted : 03/01/2018 7:14 pm