Recently the Intel CPU Specter / Meltdown loophole was an uproar, people panic, AMD, ARM has also been affected after the incident, Intel has been actively taking relevant measures and is ready to announce progress.
Today, Intel has released a latest announcement, after reading we can rest assured.
Intel first made it clear that so far has not been found that the loopholes were utilized, there is no disclosure of user privacy data.
Intel has been working with industry and OEM partners to provide software and firmware updates to the affected CPU processors in the past five years as it uncovers vulnerabilities in early December last year and is expected to cover more than 90% of the product in a single week , The end of this month to complete the remaining upgrades of all products.
On the issue of performance degradation after the bug fixes, Intel said according to the latest internal testing, The impact on typical users will not be obvious , That is, ordinary home and business users do not slow down ordinary operations after updating a patch, accessing the Internet, sending and receiving e-mails, entering documents, browsing photos, and watching videos.
SYSMark 2014 SE test shows that, Eight generations of Core Duo processor with SSD solid state drive, the performance will not be more than 6% .
As for the impact on the data center, Intel is still under evaluation, has not yet reached a complete conclusion, However, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Red Hat and other industry giants have already voiced their solidarity with Intel, saying the patch performance after the patch is minimal or no decline.
Intel pointed out that performance changes depending on the specific workload, platform configuration, test methods, can not be generalized.
