Intel 10nm CPU's with Hardware fix for Spectre&Meltdown

[DarkSmith2]

In a phone conference Intel CEO Brian Krzanich stated to Tom's Hardware that 10nm Processors will get released until autumn, which get a "Hardware fix" for Spectre and Meltdown. He also stated that Intel continues to develope there 14nm process. Which means that we might get another round of 14nm CPU releases from intel.

 

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Krzanich later said the company would begin to ship products with "in-silicon" fixes for the vulnerabilities this year. He did not elaborate, but logically this means that the company will include these fixes in the 10nm generation of products. Krzanich also later stated that the company expects to continue developing its 14nm products in 2018

 

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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-in-silicon-fix-meltdown-spectre,36405.html

 

What do you guys think? Mainstream 8core 10nm with meltdown&spectre fix possible in 2018?

[Guest]

Brian and I live in dreamland. Here anything is possible.

[mariushm]

It takes probably more than 6-8 months to shrink down an existing cpu from one architecture to another (from 14nm to 10nm), produce a test batch of cpus, then do a revision to fix whatever's broken or not working right due to the changes and then hopefully do a second revision which works fine and it's good for volume production.

 

My 2 cents is that if it's gonna be a 10nm chip it's either gonna be something like Atom or some simple cpu that didn't use that stuff that is vulnerable anyway (some htpc or laptop part or nas processor) , or it's gonna be a current design shrunk down and which is gonna pop up towards the end of the 2018.

 

They still have a whole bunch of processors to release for the current generation, those are produced already for months and they're not gonna change the hardware design for these series of processors.