Intel 7nm Delay Fallout:Law Firm Launches Securities Fraud Investigation

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Looks like it's MORE than just trouble with the process...

 

Intel 7nm Delay Fallout: Law Firm Launches Securities Fraud Investigation | Tom's Hardware

Edited July 28, 2020 by schuck6566

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Blimey...when it rains it pours eh. Intel are going to be desperate to get past this 7nm phase.

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From the looks of it, Intel will need a miracle to fix security problems in their architecture and downscale it to 10nm and 7nm.

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The more I keep reading, the more I keep picturing Wile E. Coyote ordering from the Acme catalog saying "I need a 7nm cpu to catch the AMD road runner..." and TSMC drops this massive chip on his head while you hear a "beep beep" from the back ground.

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ROTFL "Dang Sparky! When it rains it POURS!"

Intel Accused of Infringing FinFET Patents of the Microelectronics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences | TechPowerUp

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Ouch, looks like everyone wants a piece of Intel right now...and not in a good way.

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Ouch, looks like everyone wants a piece of Intel right now...and not in a good way.

 

well, one lad that I spoke with has found new vulnerabilities in intel CPUs, that can easily kill them, from what I can tell works on any Core i CPU and it wasn't fixed by PlunderVolt fixes...

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well, one lad that I spoke with has found new vulnerabilities in intel CPUs, that can easily kill them, from what I can tell works on any Core i CPU and it wasn't fixed by PlunderVolt fixes...

 

If that was the case would that flaw not enable access to hardware level control such as voltage etc ? In order to kill them or are we talking about another vector ?

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If that was the case would that flaw not enable access to hardware level control such as voltage etc ? In order to kill them or are we talking about another vector ?

 

It doesn't require hardware access, but it does require elevated privileges and some registry trickery, he managed to pump 1.7V while CPU was thinking it was getting 1.2, so my guess is if anybody weaponizes it, that's a whole lot of dead intel CPUs. Fortunately from the discussion we had I understood that Ryzen CPUs wouldn't be affected and it is not possible to repeat it with it with current knowledge, but Ryzen APUs might be affected in some way, further investigation is still required.