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There is a serious design flaw in Intel CPUs, which affects computers
running any OS (MacOS, Windows, Linux, etc.), will need an OS-level
patch to correct. The flaw can allow malware access to supposedly
secure system information such as passwords and keychains. The OS-level
fix may cause a performance drop of up to 30%!


Intel Chips Have Memory Access Design Flaw and Fix Could Lead to
Performance Drop
<https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/02/intel-chip-design-flaw/>


Intel chip kernel flaw requires OS-level fix that could impact macOS performance, report says <http://appleinsider.com/articles/18/01/02/intel-chip-kernel-flaw-requires-os-level-fix-that-could-impact-macos-performance-report-says>




Time for Apple to swicth over to their own CPUs for Mac computers??
Time for Americans to sue Intel out of existence??

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On 2018-01-03 06:01:19 +0000, Your Name said:

There is a serious design flaw in Intel CPUs, which affects computers
running any OS (MacOS, Windows, Linux, etc.), will need an OS-level
patch to correct. The flaw can allow malware access to supposedly
secure system information such as passwords and keychains. The OS-level
fix may cause a performance drop of up to 30%!

Intel Chips Have Memory Access Design Flaw and Fix Could Lead to
Performance Drop <https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/02/intel-chip-design-flaw/>

Intel chip kernel flaw requires OS-level fix that could impact macOS performance, report says <http://appleinsider.com/articles/18/01/02/intel-chip-kernel-flaw-requires-os-level-fix-that-could-impact-macos-performance-report-says>

Apple has reportedly already partially fixed this problem for High
Sierra users with the 10.13.2 update and the 10.13.3 update will
include further fixes (it doesn't mention any other version of Mac OS X)

Intel Memory Access Design Flaw Already Addressed by Apple in macOS 10.13.2 <https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/03/intel-design-flaw-fixed-macos-10-13-2/>

Apple has already partially implemented fix in macOS for 'KPTI' Intel
CPU security flaw <http://appleinsider.com/articles/18/01/03/apple-has-already-partially-implemented-fix-in-macos-for-kpti-intel-cpu-security-flaw>

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