Sentences with phrase «modern chips»

They found that because of a flaw in modern chip architecture, designed for speed over security, the chip kernel could be exposed.

Intel's Navin Shenoy released the results of several benchmarks done internally, and the performance hit from the deeply rooted processor problem disclosed by Google researchers is mercifully small for modern chips.

Spectre and Meltdown are vulnerabilities in modern chip design that could allow attackers to bypass system protections on nearly every recent PC, server and smartphone

Yu and his colleagues — Srinivas Devadas, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT; Christopher Hughes and Nadathur Satish of Intel; and Onur Mutlu of ETH Zurich — avoid all that metadata transfer with a slight modification of a memory management system found in most modern chips.

Modern chips typically have so much idle processing power that it makes sense for programs to calculate several options to solve a problem even before earlier steps in the program have completed.

For those of you not aware of Spectre and Meltdown, they are a series of serious chip vulnerabilities that affect many modern chips including Intel and its competitors.

In other words, Microsoft is saying Windows 7 is old for modern hardware, and hardware manufacturers have to write extra code to make Windows 7 understand modern chips.

As Google so aptly pointed out, these vulnerabilities have been in place inside modern chips for 20 years.

The flaws, known as Spectre and Meltdown, take advantage of how modern chips do calculations in advance for things they might need to do in the future.

Again, the CPU exploits in play here are extremely technical, but in a nutshell, the exploit allows access to your operating system's sacrosanct kernel memory because of how the processors handle «speculative execution,» which modern chips perform to increase performance.

Something that's thinner, with a decent Apple Watch-esque SiP board design with modern chips.

However, until now, all prototypes of devices based on conventional ferroelectrics have not been compatible with silicon technology, which is used in the production of most modern chips.

Spectre and Meltdown are vulnerabilities in modern chip design that could allow attackers to bypass system protections on nearly every recent PC, server and smartphone — allowing hackers to read sensitive information, such as passwords, from memory.

The new chip design, published in the journal Nature Communications, details a novel architecture that allows quantum calculations to be performed using existing semiconductor components, known as CMOS (complementary metal - oxide - semiconductor)-- the basis for all modern chips.

Millions of transistors connected together on a modern chip process information by influencing each other's electrical state.

Because fetching data from the chip's main memory bank is slow, every core, or processor, in a modern chip has its own «cache,» a relatively small, local, high - speed memory bank.

In addition, Microsoft demonstrated a new JavaScript engine that uses the multiple cores of today's modern chips to effectively manage computing resources and improve Web performance.

Meltdown affects just Intel chips, while Spectre affects just about all modern chips, including AMD, ARM, IBM Power chips and Nvidia.

Intel's stock has taken a big hit since the announcement, in spite of the fact these issues affect almost all modern chips.

Apple has rolled out a security fix to older Macs in an effort to mitigate the risk from a vulnerability in modern chips.