According to the report of Fortune magazine, there was an episode in Intel's long-term bug fixes. In millions of computers running Intel CPU all over the world, a patch of 'ghost' caused some computers to crash or automate. Reboot. Although only a small portion of the market was affected, these issues have spread enough to panic PC makers and immediately recalled the updated software.
Ronak Singhal, Intel’s senior executive responsible for Intel’s development of all its processor architectures, had to under pressure to explain to one of the company’s software partners how Intel patched the “ghost” and “fuse” security issues. He took a lot more. Hours took away from the concerns of the partners. A few weeks later, Intel issued a patch, and since then, the repair work for one of the most serious security incidents in computing history has only started smoothly. On March 16, Intel announced that it had Patches are fully deployed for all chips produced in the past five years.
From the beginning of July 2017, Intel and other chip makers have realized that the scope of the loopholes is huge and convened multiple teams to develop solutions. Singhal called a morning meeting - sometimes for two hours - to coordinate Intel's Emergency Response Offices in Oregon, California, Texas, and Israel. People from different time zones mean that this issue is constantly being dealt with around the clock.
Intel's plan is to first release the software patch and then incorporate the protection measures into the future chip design. The price of the software patch is to reduce the performance of the affected CPU, and the degree of reduction depends on the type of Intel chip and the running program. A test conducted on a PC equipped with a Kaby Lake Core i7 processor showed that the speed of most applications was reduced by less than 10%, which is hardly noticeable in daily use. However, Microsoft warned that running Windows 7 or 8 and 5 years The PC of the former Intel Haswell processor will be greatly affected.
Kozic told Fortune: "Our first set of software defenses has come into play. We have completed the repairs for the last five years and the latest release of the product. We are now starting to implement hardware defenses and will implant us." On the chip. 'In his blog, it is clearly mentioned that changes at the chip level will be the first to be used in Intel's next-generation Xeon® Scalable Processor (codenamed Cascade Lake) and is expected to ship in the second half of 2018. The 8th generation Intel CoreTM processor.
At the same time, Krzyzew has also set up a new group called IPAS (Intel Product Assurance and Security) to not only fix the 'ghost' and 'fuse' loopholes, but also respond more effectively to future security issues. He joined Intel in 1979. Executives Leslie Culbertson lead the IPAS team.
However, the technical team that is in a state of combat at the moment cannot afford to slack off, as Koziqi said: 'Our work is not over. This is not a one-time event, but a long-term commitment. We attach great importance to this. Customer first urgency, transparent and timely communication, and ongoing security. 'For Intel, this is a new research area and a new field of security exploration, it will also be Intel's long-term investment.