Microprocessor upgrades, or Replacement ?

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The cat is out of the bag, Intel microprocessors (and others) are due to have patches applied over the next few days to offset a supposed 'potential exploit' of the kernal process by external methods.

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerability-what-you-need.html

Whilst the measures are to be rolled out on microprocessors dating back as 1995, giving any nefarious hacker up to 27 years to do the deed, there is no information I can see that suggests similar procedures will, or can be pushed onto bespoke, one time programmable chipsets (ASICs), where a slightly different, but equally damaging design flaw was confirmed around two years ago.

Cutting-edge hack gives super user status by exploiting DRAM weakness
 
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Saw this... Wonder what AWS will do and how they will handle it. Knowing them, we'll get a notification two minutes before they reboot all servers.... A-holes.
 

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One wonders if any cashpoints will work, or have money in them this weekend ?
 

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Oh dear. Thankfully, we don't have any AMD powered servers but we need to patch 3000+ servers for these bugs.

Strangely, Microshaft don't have a patch for Windows 2012 (non-R2)... le sigh.
 

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My office PC runs AMD and did go though the first of two updates last night with no issue.
 

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"Luckily", this AMD E70 processer-based low-end laptop is still running W7, as is my main AMD A8 based laptop, - & W7 updates have hopefully stopped and so they "should" be OK :oops:. Will turn off updates anyway.
 
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The updates earlier were for XP, so Microsoft is almost certainly rolling out patches to cover all operating systems (perhaps even 3.1)
 

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Bit annoyed that I went out and bought a 8700K and a 8400 just before they announced this, hopefully it wont affect me much
but will certainly affect the resale.
 
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