By Darren Allan
Intel has been busy fire-fighting the Meltdown and Spectre bugs throughout January, and the firm’s latest step in its uphill PR battle is to clarify that new chips which are bulletproof to the vulnerabilities will start to turn up later in 2018.
This information was imparted by the CEO of Intel, Brian Krzanich himself, in an earnings call to investors following the revelation of the company’s latest financial results.
As Hexus reports, Krzanich said that Intel was still ‘working around the clock’ on patches to mitigate Meltdown and Spectre, but that software fixes obviously aren’t enough in terms of looking to the future, and that changes in the architecture of upcoming CPUs are underway to defend against the bugs on a fundamental level.
Krzanich said: “We’re working to incorporate silicon-based changes to future products that will directly address the Spectre and Meltdown threats in hardware. And those products will begin appearing later this year.”
This is nothing less than you would hope, really, but it’s still positive news to hear that next-gen chips will (hopefully) soon have protection baked in.
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Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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