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From the article: "What makes this a little different are the eight-core products. In order to make these, Intel had to create new die masks for the manufactur
by MattSteelblade 8y ago
From the article:
"What makes this a little different are the eight-core products. In order to make these, Intel had to create new die masks for the manufacturing line, as their previous masks only went up to six cores (and before that, four cores). This would, theoretically, give Intel a chance to implement some of the hardware mitigations for Spectre/Meltdown. As of the time of writing, we have not been given any indication that this is the case, perhaps due to the core design being essentially a variant of Skylake in a new processor. We will have to wait until a new microarchitecture comes to the forefront to see any changes."
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoI must've read a different article than the one linked here, which said these were the first generation with those mitigations. :/
- iforgotpassword 8y agoThat would be great if true, do you have a link?
- tedunangst 8y agoThat's what ars claims. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/intels-new-performance-desktop-lineup-an-overclockable-xeon-9th-gen-core/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/intels-new-performan...
- bscphil 8y agoThat's interesting. Would love to hear something definitive, as I've been holding off on all new computer purchases until something changes, or until you can get a powerful AMD chip in a high quality laptop like the Dell XPS line.
- Mindless2112 8y ago> The new desktop processors include protections for the security vulnerabilities commonly referred to as "Spectre", "Meltdown" and "L1TF". These protections include a combination of the hardware design changes we announced earlier this year as well as software and microcode updates. > * Speculative side channel variant Spectre V2 (Branch Target Injection) = Microcode + Software > * Speculative side channel variant Meltdown V3 (Rogue Data Cache Load) = Hardware > * Speculative side channel variant Meltdown V3a (Rogue System Register Read) = Microcode > * Speculative side channel variant V4 (Speculative Store Bypass) = Microcode + Software > * Speculative side channel variant L1 Terminal Fault = Hardware [1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/spectre-and-meltdown-hardware-protection-added-to-intels-9th-gen-cpus/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/spectre-and-m...