Researchers Discover new Intel processor Vulnerability - the BranchScope Attack

[groovesection]

Intel release new marketing slogan:

"Intel on the inside, all your data on the outside"

Oh ffs, just seen Asus released another BIOS update on 28th, is this what having an Intel CPU will be these days? updating the BIOS every 2 months, that's 3 new BIOS since Dec 2017..sigh

 

[Rroff]

Intel release new marketing slogan:

"Intel on the inside, all your data on the outside"

Oh ffs, just seen Asus released another BIOS update on 28th, is this what having an Intel CPU will be these days? updating the BIOS every 2 months, that's 3 new BIOS since Dec 2017..sigh

Funny in another thread here people are moaning because motherboard vendors aren't releasing new BIOS updates regularly enough heh.

 

[Phixsator]

Funny in another thread here people are moaning because motherboard vendors aren't releasing new BIOS updates regularly enough heh.

I would personally love to see some love for my board and would be cheering from the rooftop if a vendor would continue to support this aging mobo in my machine.

 

[Rroff]

I would personally love to see some love for my board and would be cheering from the rooftop if a vendor would continue to support this aging mobo in my machine.

One thing I'm not liking - 2 of my most used boards they pretty much dropped BIOS updates other than the odd bug fix as soon as newer boards came along - people have found you can inject some of the newer functionality from the replacement chipsets into the firmware updates seemingly without problems such as NVME support (though obviously what works and what passes proper vendor qualification testing is another matter) but it does seem that most of the big names use it as another way to push people into buying newer boards which kind of sucks.

 

[Phixsator]

One thing I'm not liking - 2 of my most used boards they pretty much dropped BIOS updates other than the odd bug fix as soon as newer boards came along - people have found you can inject some of the newer functionality from the replacement chipsets into the firmware updates seemingly without problems such as NVME support (though obviously what works and what passes proper vendor qualification testing is another matter) but it does seem that most of the big names use it as another way to push people into buying newer boards which kind of sucks.

Which seems kinda odd to me considering intel is releasing a new chipset every 2 blinks of an eye. Should give plenty of sales alone on that fact.

 

[groovesection]

I would personally love to see some love for my board and would be cheering from the rooftop if a vendor would continue to support this aging mobo in my machine.

I amusing an old H110 board and they are dropping new BIOS updates all the time, which is weird as the first BIOS release was way back in Dec 2015, I've had 7 new BIOS's since April 2017 (when the first reports of Meltdown & Spectre started to appear).
My mate who is running a Z87 has had just 1 since then.
Seems some boards are more susceptible, possibly to do with the PCH?, but that's above my knowledge base