{"id":1313,"date":"2018-01-19T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T17:02:04","slug":"meltdown-and-spectre-intel-vs-amd-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2018\/01\/19\/meltdown-and-spectre-intel-vs-amd-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Meltdown and Spectre &#8212; Intel vs AMD status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a computer powered by an AMD processor, is your risk profile any different from someone with an Intel-powered PC? This Ars Technica article (January 18, 2018) summarizes the situation: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2018\/01\/good-newsbad-news-in-quest-to-get-meltdown-and-spectre-patched\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meltdown and Spectre: Good news for AMD users, (more) bad news for Intel<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Windows patches are fixed, but microcode updates are causing even more trouble.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s patches now work with newer and older AMD systems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re unfortunate enough to have installed the previous, bad update and now have a system that crashes on startup, you&#8217;ll still have to roll back the bad update before you can install the new one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But Intel&#8217;s firmware patches remain an issue for several generations of their processors (something that will perplex the typical PC user).<\/p>\n<p>The short article concludes with a perspective on what action really is practical for most of us with older PCs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"column-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"left-column\">\n<section class=\"article-guts\">\n<div class=\"article-content post-page\">\n<blockquote><p>What this means is that if you&#8217;re lucky enough to have a system that is still being supported with firmware updates from its manufacturer\u2014because let&#8217;s be honest: good luck getting any firmware updates for <em>any<\/em> consumer PC or motherboard that&#8217;s more than about 18 months old\u2014you probably shouldn&#8217;t install the firmware anyway. Unless, that is, you&#8217;re in a high risk category such as a cloud host or VPS provider, in which case you&#8217;ll just have to install it anyway, because the consequences of not upgrading are probably worse than the consequences of upgrading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a computer powered by an AMD processor, is your risk profile any different from someone with an Intel-powered PC? This Ars Technica article (January 18, 2018) summarizes the situation: &#8220;Meltdown and Spectre: Good news for AMD users, (more) bad news for Intel.&#8221; Windows patches are fixed, but microcode updates are causing even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,126,127],"tags":[119,120],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-desktop","category-notebook","tag-meltdown","tag-spectre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}