01/09/2018

What Should You Make of Tech’s CPU Meltdown?

Recently, some hardware-level exploits caused a collective frenzy in the tech world

In 1994, a math professor unwittingly came across what would prove to be a costly headache for the chip giant Intel—a bug in the way that the floating point unit in Intel’s Pentium chip divides numbers.

The problem was seen in retrospect as perhaps a bit overblown—it was not a situation that most computer users would run into on a regular basis—but it still ended up costing Intel hundreds of millions of dollars.

The flaws recently revealed in popular lines of processors promise to affect users a lot more than that old floating-point bug, especially if they don’t upgrade their devices.

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