On 14 February 2018 at 14:32, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| > Almost NO 32-bit x86 chips are in current production. I think that | > Intel has some goofy SoCs for IoT applications that are limited to | > 32-bit but they really don't matter. | | No, they canned that line last year. They really were not very good.
This doesn't say that it is EoLed. But I do think I heard that they stopped work in this direction.
<https://ark.intel.com/products/91949>
The "segfault bug" (lock instruction (prefix?) bug) sounds bad: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark#Segfault_bug>
That's an awesome solution they implemented there: "don't use LOCK." Intel says "It's 2014, you don't need multi-threading!" There's this assumption among many computer geeks (until today I was among them) that Intel is the chip "gold standard." I _should_ have changed my mind on that after their spectacularly poor response to Spectre and Meltdown. And then there's the security nightmare of the IME, a horribly insecure computer-within-your-computer. But for some reason, I think this is the figurative straw that broke the camel's back: I'm going to be looking to other chip manufacturers after this. All my vehemence and reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine shows that AMD has created their own IME-alike. Security is a thing of the past ... -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com