We have been receiving those half-baked Spectre patches for two months. But in reality, the problem likely isn't solved, not by far.
The current solutions for Spectre are just attempts by Intel and AMD to avoid legal prosecution, by claiming that the processors still work at their intended performance level for "most applications".
The only real solution for Spectre is to completely disable speculative execution, and take the consequential 15% performance hit.
Does anyone have any information whether any CPU vendor is planning on releasing a microcode update which would completely disable speculative execution?
The current solutions for Spectre are just attempts by Intel and AMD to avoid legal prosecution, by claiming that the processors still work at their intended performance level for "most applications".
The only real solution for Spectre is to completely disable speculative execution, and take the consequential 15% performance hit.
Does anyone have any information whether any CPU vendor is planning on releasing a microcode update which would completely disable speculative execution?