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The tech industry in general undervalues security (at least in my opinion). I agree part of the reason Intel does is about being a monopolist, but I see this as
by bo1024 8y ago
The tech industry in general undervalues security (at least in my opinion). I agree part of the reason Intel does is about being a monopolist, but I see this as a bigger trend of fancy/shiny/innovative at the expense of solid/secure/stable.
- huffmsa 8y agoBut Intel has stalled out pretty hard on fancy/shiny/innovative. They hit a brick wall with 7nm.
- wybiral 8y agoBut you can still speed things up with shiny tricks like speculative execution...
- dustindiamond 8y ago...and here we are.
- archgoon 8y agoSpeculative execution (Branch Prediction) is hardly flashy. It's been present in Intel chips (Pentium) (and just about everyone else) since the early 90s (a quarter of a century ago). This was back when die resolution was 600 nm.
- wybiral 8y agoRight, my point was that they're doing more than just reducing the nm.
- threatofrain 8y agoI would argue that tech people overvalue security, since they think about what could happen if you're violated, and then they discuss the expected value of making the secure decision.