Clarifying the Spectre mitigations...

[Bret Busby]

On 10/01/2018, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 18:26:54 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>but I really don't know if it's just an Intel lie at this point (wouldn't
>> be the first one on this fiasco... maybe they just want to avoid a
>> recall)
>
> Like it or not, everything coming out of Intel on this will likely
> have gone through their lawyers with the aim of limiting any legal
> damage, and thus truth loses.  It is the way of the world.
>
> As for the idea of a recall*, won't happen.  As pointed out elsewhere,
> this involves 20+ years of processors.  Intel has neither the money
> nor the fab capabilitity to implement a recall of that many
> processors.
>
>
> * - certain select users may get deals made for new processors, things
> like the supercomputer clusters, where the number of processors is
> relatively small but there is a possible big impact.
>

"As pointed out elsewhere,  this involves 20+ years of processors."

Seeking clarification - I understood, from all of the reports, from
multiple sources, that I have seen, that it applies to "all processors
manufactured in the last ten years".

Please clarify.


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Bret Busby
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