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Intel addresses Meltdown and Spectre security flaws at CES 2018

2018-01-08
today is a day where we all come together to celebrate the lifeblood of our amazing industry and that's really about innovation but before we start I want to take a moment to thank the industry for coming together for another purpose to address the recent security research findings reported as meltdown and Spectre in the aberration among so many companies to address this industry-wide issue across several different processor architectures has been truly remarkable his security is job number one for Intel and our industry so the primary focus of our decisions and discussions have been to keep our customers data safe as of now we have not received any information that these exploits have been used to obtain customer data and we're working tirelessly on these issues to ensure it stays that way the best thing you can do to make sure your data remains safe is to apply any updates from your operating system vendor and system manufacturer as soon as they become available for our processors products introduced in the past five years Intel expects to issue updates for more than 90% of them within a week and the remaining by the end of January we believe the performance impact of these updates is highly work the load dependent now as a result we expect some workloads may have a larger impact than others so we'll continue working with the industry to minimize the impact on those workloads over time when we come together like this there are endless possibilities
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