There is a serious security flaw in billions of Intel CPUs that can let attackers steal confidential data like passwords and encryption keys. Firmware updates can fix it, but at a potential significant performance loss.

Oh no.

    • XIIIesqEnglish
      11•2 years ago

      If it’s anything like the industry that I work in, the CEO would have been informed of the short comings of the design numerous times and given a response along the lines of “does it make our CPUs faster and more powerful though?”.

      The CEO won’t be pissed of at his chip designer, they’ll be pissed because they’ve been caught out.

    • RoboticideEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Given that the AMD vulnerability was called “Inception,” maybe they just like using movie titles to name CPU vulnerabilities?