ty_ger07
No one knows what this flaw is nor how to exploit it? There are documents outlining the flaw, how to exploit it, and demonstration code which you can try yourself.

The "flaw" is that the CPU speculates about what you may want to do next, so it fetches and caches potentially future information but at the same time potentially fetches information which ends up being beyond the scope of the program. It's really more of a feature instead of a flaw, but it ends up being a flaw if exploited a certain way.

Of course CPU performance goes down when you disable speculation; since speculation was a performance enhancing feature. Too much hype over nothing.

fearpoint

Squall_Rinoa86
No real worry for gamers or casual users. This basically can effect cloud services. Pointless mass hysteria and forcing none businesses to eat the patch to.

That said, I wont be upgrading this year, i'll wait for the 9XXX series and DDR4/5 :/

One more year with DDR3/i7 4790k...

Because the hysteria over net neutrality regulations going away was so last year we now have the latest tech hysteria from computer illiterates with no clue.
 
I'm getting flashbacks of the Y2K hysteria.

fergusonll
Not much of a performance hit on content and gaming as originally mention, but man if nvme storage is going to take that big of a hit, that's going to be a downer.