{"id":118671,"date":"2017-06-26T17:52:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=118671"},"modified":"2017-06-26T17:53:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T15:53:21","slug":"critical-hyper-threading-flaw-in-intel-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/118671-critical-hyper-threading-flaw-in-intel-processors","title":{"rendered":"Critical hyper-threading flaw in Intel processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A critical flaw has been discovered in Intel\u2019s Skylake and Kaby Lake processors, according to a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lists.debian.org\/debian-devel\/2017\/06\/msg00308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warning message<\/a><\/strong> published by Debian.org.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw is apparently present in all hyper-threaded mobile, desktop, HEDT, and embedded chips, and could result in the chips misbehaving.<\/p>\n<p>The issue consists of a microcode defect which only affects the processor when hyper-threading is enabled, and the warning recommended that all affected users immediately disable hyper-threading.<\/p>\n<p>Intel has fixed the issue for certain processors, but users will have to install a microcode package or BIOS update to apply the fix.<\/p>\n<p>Users should reportedly disable hyper-threading in their BIOS settings and contact their system vendor to acquire an update which fixes the problem.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/217080-major-flaw-discovered-in-intel-6th-and-7th-gen-processors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/216204-intels-new-core-x-processors-south-african-pricing.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel\u2019s new Core X processors \u2013 South African pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A critical flaw has been discovered in Intel\u2019s Skylake and Kaby Lake processors, according to a warning message published by Debian.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":114335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24665,10782,1727],"class_list":["post-118671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hardware-flaw","tag-hyper-threading","tag-intel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}