Cannonlake processors will not be immune to meltdown and specter

In the last hours we are discovering part of the specifications that we can find in the new generation of Cannonlake processors, which are going to arrive with a new manufacturing process of 10 nm.

Cannonlake will not be able to resolve the Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities

In a recent leak we learned that the Cannonlake-U series for portable devices was going to have a 15W TDP, a new generation of integrated Intel GT2 graphics, and that the 2-core models were going to lack any kind of integrated GPU solution.. So far nothing out of the ordinary, but we have also been able to discover that this generation will not be able to solve the problems of Specter and Meltdown at the silicon level.

Cannonlake processors will be vulnerable to Meltdown and Specter. The reason for this is because Cannonlake was designed long ago, before the Meltodwn and Specter vulnerabilities were discovered. Only next-generation Intel Ice Lake processors, featuring a new microarchitecture, will no longer be vulnerable to Meltdown and Specter at the silicon level.

In addition to reducing its manufacturing process to 10nm, which would allow it to offer better performance with lower power consumption and heat generation, Cannonlake processors will also feature the AVX-512 instruction set.

At CES 2018, Intel announced that it has already started shipping Cannonlake laptop processors to its partners, with increased production in 2018. So we can sense that new chips with this architecture will finally see the light of day in 2018.

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