On January 26, Intel released its Q4 and FY2017 results. Although the data showed a year-on-year loss as a result of the U.S. tax reform, all other data or non-GAAP statements made multiple records, Also led the stock price rise.
At the earnings conference, CEO Brian Krzanich opened the door with questions about Specter and Meltdown vulnerabilities, which are of major concern to the outside world.
He first said that Intel is planning and orderly working with customers and partners to deal with the problem, while acknowledging that there are not many things to do.
For the long term, Intel emphasizes, The new chip, released late this year, will be completely immune to the vulnerability and will not be compromised.
As for how Intel's new products from the ground to resist these effects (Note: The vulnerability is a kernel-level feature of modern processors, including AMD and ARM, that are widely used, data cache speculation ), As well as whether there is any adverse effect on the roadmap for the performance of the project at this moment in time.
Based on current information, Intel will distribute 8 generations of Pentium, Celeron and more Coffee Lake platform Core Desktop processors in this spring, Q2 will have Xeon and so on, After Q3 may be 9 generations of Core or 10nm new, so what Intel means is to move the knife at 10nm?
As Q4 was missed as a result of the flaw, it is expected that their impact on Intel may be reflected in Q1 2018's financial data.
However, according to Intel's outlook, Q1 2018 Q1 will achieve 15 billion US dollars in revenue throughout the year to achieve 65 billion US dollars, which is the year-on-year growth.
