Allen
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Intel Assures Silicon-Based Changes For Next-Gen CPUs Arriving in Late 2018 – Will Address Spectre and Meltdown Threats
"Security is a top priority for Intel, foundational to our products and it’s critical to the success of our data-centric strategy. Our near term focus is on delivering high quality mitigations to protect our customers infrastructure from these exploits. We’re working to incorporate silicon-based changed to future products that will directly address the Spectre and Meltdown threats in hardware. And those products will begin appearing later this year."
Brian Krzanich, CEO, Intel
Intel is being up front. At first, they downplayed the issue. The solution comes at the end of 2018 for some new products -- older CPUs (up to 10+ years older) can't be fixed (only worked around).
Depending on how the industry handles this (example, a Windows 10 change that does not discriminate among CPUs), current AMD CPUs and APUs may be strongly affected or little affected.
However, the Intel problems seem minimal during game play that does not access the internet, LAN, or hard drive frequently (i.e., you'll never "see" a problem). So, high boost frequency Intel CPUs are probably still the best choice for older single or dual core games played single-player -- if highest possible measured FPS is the goal.
For higher core count games, AMD Ryzen gives more cores per dollar (usually) that are competitive with Intel at similar clocks (i.e. Intel lead in final FPS normally not visible -- per core per clock).
But, the issue has not settled down, yet. So, we'll see what the "future" holds for AMD regarding this issue.
