This isn't actually news. In the security and threat intelligence community, this particular vulnerability has been known about for 2 years. It isn't the first time a theoretical vulnerability has been studied and reported on, even if there are no known vectors to exploit it. The common practice is for researchers to identify the threat, and report it to the specific manufacturer or vendors for mitigation. In this case Apple, who don't report what they're doing about it, but have generally been very responsive to the threat intelligence community in these circumstances.Well here is something else,
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance.arstechnica.com
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Bending the narrative & meaning of words as one straddles along…The DOJ is looking at the US and this is a legal issue for the US and US consumers so it doesn't really have anything to do with the rest of the world since this decision will only have bearing in the USA.Also Apple is an American company and therefore subject to US law. It is certainly possible that a US law imposed on Apple could affect their business practices around the world but this isn't a EU or other world court legal issue.
Gaming consoles are NOT nearly as important as a phone. Phones literally connect us with the world around us and if we don't have a phone work properly or communication is limited between devices it could become a safety issue in emergencies.
So, as of right now though, 12th, 13th, or 14th gen intel are fine and only M3 are good with Apple Silicon. Correct?
It actually depends on what 'good' means. In absolute terms it isn't certain. Mitigation strategies by Intel/Apple and Microsoft changed the landscape to some degree, but it isn't clear how effectively because we're dealing with theoretical vectors in the latest generations of chips, as opposed to known and exploited vectors previously in the Meltdown/Spectre incidents.
I suppose that is due to technical reasons.
I was not speaking about the price, but only about the unability to upgrade.
Yet the devices are poorly optimized considering.
Really not so much. There's an abstraction layer between the hardware and Windows, and MS provide all the data vendors need in order to write the drivers that interface their devices with that layer. Microsoft themselves have almost zero (apparent) interest in hardware, and it's the hardware vendor who is responsible for how their device presents itself to the abstraction layer. All MS do is ensure that all the hooks into that layer are visible to device manager.
Except for Surface products why would Microsoft take interest in what most OEM's are doing?
I don't know. Intel and AMD use a special fabric that is very fast to connect the cpu to other parts of the x86 SOC and I know they are using fabrics like this to connect soldiered ram and ssd. And soldiered ram and ssd also speed things up and offer more bandwidth without being a part of the SOC itself.
Not only does Apple price itself out the market it locks itself out of the market with it walled garden approach. Another factor is the Mac is far from Apple's number on priority although of recent they do seem to be taking a greater interest.
No, i am not saying the ALL the software features/drivers are kernel level.
Very easily it's better for Apple and it's shareholders and that's Tim Cook's job. While many of us here dont like some of the aspects of Apple's HW/SW design there's no doubts they understand their intended audience...
Intended audience? No I think lumpo is doing what he wants regardless, I just think of the products and upgrades not bought, wonder why Apple want to make a crappy underpowered device, that many know is crappy and underpowered, why? Why not at least try? Where is the harm? Or is lumpo just so devoid of courage that he cannot make the decision??
I'm pretty confident he can make decisions and knows exactly what he's doing. Upsetting a minority of customers is of no consequence to him or Apple in general. As much as I'd like to Apple be actually more sustainable and design their products with repair and upgradeability in mind it's never going to happen unless legislation is put in place...
