The head of Intel promised to release processors with built -in protection against Specter and Meltdown

Presumably by the end of 2018.

Until the end of 2018, Intel will release processors with protection against spectre and Meltdown at the hardware level. This was told by the General Director of the company Brian Krzanich at a conference on the quarterly income report.

According to Krzhanich, “some of the best minds” of Intel work on eliminating vulnerabilities. He also noted that the company is trying to solve the problem 24 hours a day. According to the general director, the scandal will not significantly affect the sales of products.

As Business Insider emphasized, at the conference, Krzhanich did not comment on the mass sale of shares in companies at the end of 2017. Then he helped out $ 54 million for 889 thousand shares. Krzhanich made a sale a few months after the appearance of information about Specter and Meltdown, but before the public found out about them.

The PCWorLD publication based on flowing technological roadmaps (Roadmaps) suggested that the chips with vulnerabilities will be called Cannon Lake (10-NM) and Cascade Lake-X (14-nm). Journalists expect the chips will appear only by the end of 2018.

The media learned about vulnerabilities in Intel processors in early January 2018. The first corrections from the developers of Windows and Linux could slow down the operation of systems by 30%. The company released patches, but later admitted that emergency updates could lead to frequent reboots and unpredictable system errors.

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