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Yes. Intel is an industry leader. EFI, Thunderbolt, and the "ultrabook" product category are all their ideas. By adding a feature to their CPU products, they i
by notriddle 5y ago
Yes.
Intel is an industry leader. EFI, Thunderbolt, and the "ultrabook" product category are all their ideas. By adding a feature to their CPU products, they induce demand for anything that complements it.
By putting ECC support into their highest-end mobile CPUs only, they made them into high-end luxuries instead of industry standard. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/search/featurefilter.html?productType=873&0_StatusCodeText1=3,4&0_ECCMemory=True&2_MarketSegment=Mobile https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/search/featurefi...
- jolux 5y agoThe Ultrabook brand was Intel's idea but I'm pretty sure it was created to make sure that the Wintel ecosystem could stay competitive with the MacBook Air.
- sroussey 5y agoThat doesn’t explain Apple and the M1 though.
- userbinator 5y agoAs others have mentioned, ECC is nothing more than a bandaid for what is ultimately a defective product.
- staticassertion 5y agoI don't think that's true at all. ECC wasn't designed specifically with this attack in mind, and it's still a pretty effective mitigation. There's nothing defective about RAM, it's never going to be the case that errors won't happen, it's just that before we were worried about heat and radiation and now we have to worry about attackers too.