We now know that modern CPU design is deeply flawed. These chips were created and designed at a time when the web was used to read simple static pages and javashit did not exist.
We now know that it is possible to own a computer with some lines of javascript, even in a virtualized environment, thanks to these CPU flaws, and we also know that these flaws cannot be mitigated with software. But manufacturers do not seem to care about changing things at the silicone level either: They will keep selling insecure shit in order to keep improving performance.
What is the future of technology, Jow Forums? Will we have to migrate to a new architecture? Will people just accept that their computers have a backdoor and deal with it?
They just keep using more silicone to glue chiplets together
Lincoln Cooper
The i9 literally has to be submerged in cooling liquid to work optimally and then it still has these issues. People just dgaf because this is all you find at the stores. The ones that do care buy specific hardware.
John Foster
ROCK64
William Butler
same flaw. its not based on an open standard, the design isn't transparent and prone to flaws, that's the same issue with arm and powerpc, even mips. the only solution we can hope for is risc-v, if that won't fly, you can bet your ass that you will have divided people, by those working and snitching for mega corporations and those who have to suffer the consequences of being the transparent citizen in a glass house, using that technology.
Ian Richardson
And don't know much about the CPU industry but I'm certain everything is moving towards open hardware or at the very least RISC-V implementation everywhere
Easton Hill
FUD you retard, AMD chips are fine.
Kayden Ortiz
No, they are not, retard. The problem lies with speculative execution, which is used by all chips. Stop being a retarded fanboy.
Christopher Flores
It's time for VLIW. I don't think the "complex compiler" argument holds up today.
Nolan Campbell
NO SEE MICROSOFT AND INTEL ARE GOOD AND BASED IF YOU DISAGREE YOU'RE JUST A SHILL TRANNY COMMUNIST
Anthony Scott
Bitch you don’t understand just what out of order execution and speculative execution has bought us in terms of performance. It’s complex so of course it is flawed. The real problem is you running untrusted code on your computer.
Dylan Parker
Everyone is running untrusted code dozens of time every day. That's how the internet works.
It is a disaster that some code running without special privileges can do anything on a system as if it was running as root. This is not something trivial.
Justin Flores
>The real problem is you running untrusted code on your computer. We should abandon javascript and go back to HTML and PHP only.
Jose Cook
>The real problem is you running untrusted code on your computer.
Ding ding
Unironically this
Jose Foster
Yeah, Intel's problem is a lot worse. AMD has some specific Spectre issues which are really hard to take advantage of. Meanwhile, Intel has a plethora of holes in it, some exploitable with simple javascript code.
Don't play the false neutrality bias game here, fanboy.
Mason Sanders
The main problem is that CPU side channel attacks which are either difficult or impossible to patch are now a thing. And while Intel are the worst offender, more problems are bound to crop up across lots of different platforms.
Waiting for people to come up with vulnerabilities and then trying to patch them as quickly as possible has been a clusterfuck strategy for software security, it'll be a disaster for hardware.
Isaiah Peterson
Not all chips use speculation...
Grayson Davis
It does. VLIW have not been shown to work well for general purpose code, the kind of code most people run.
Carter Walker
The +90% of the chips used today do, though.
Chase Ortiz
x86 is on its way out anyway The real concern is making sure ARM doesn't become the dominating arch