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According to last weeks press release, they mean 90% of recent chips, which is far less than 90% of intel CPU's out in the wild: https://newsroom.intel.com/news
by flukus 9y ago
According to last weeks press release, they mean 90% of recent chips, which is far less than 90% of intel CPU's out in the wild: https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-issues-updates-protect-systems-security-exploits/ https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-issues-update...
> Intel has already issued updates for the majority of processor products introduced within the past five years. By the end of next week, Intel expects to have issued updates for more than 90 percent of processor products introduced within the past five years
It's also unclear what they mean by "introduced within" Does it mean when the product was first developed? First on sale? If I bought a new computer 3 years ago what is the likely-hood that it's CPU was "introduced" much earlier?
- petascale 9y agoPresumably the launch date, Intel lists launch dates for all of their processors on ark.intel.com [1] 5 years is Haswell, so Haswell and newer should get the microcode fix. A 3 year old computer is likely to have a CPU no more than 4 years old, but you can look it up to verify. (Both Windows and Linux can show the CPU model, and Intel's Ark site gives the release date.) [1] https://ark.intel.com/products/series/75023/4th-Generation-Intel-Core-i7-Processors https://ark.intel.com/products/series/75023/4th-Generation-I...
- flukus 9y agoThanks. My work computer is in the legacy section (release Q4'11), so it looks like I might be getting a new one. A shame really, it's still mostly adequate, the only thing making it age are the continued bloat from Visual Studio.