Info Reliability issue with Intel Celeron N3350, J3355, J3455 and Pentium N4200 CPUs

[Telos]

It's better that this can be fixed with a fw update then a cpu change.

Color me "skeptical". I hope I'm wrong.

 

[fredbert]

Color me"skeptical"

That'll be the ninth colour of the visible spectrum, after octarine

 

[WST16]

This is not good. I’ll be paranoid when time comes to upgrade

 

[jeyare]

Today I spoke with one of my customer, he asked me re Synology, some kind of recommendation. I told him, that the new filter is still missing in the Product page, but found him "safe" CPU based model . I'm not a seller, but it must be hard to everyday task - to find a device what is out of this shame situation.

 

[durin]

Well maybe they will resolve it, as soon as they figure out how to implement it. Have faith. This is a good thing overall. It's better that this can be fixed with a fw update then a cpu change.

Agreed, if they can resolve the issue with a firmware update, then it’s certainly preferable to having to do hardware fixes.

 

[Telos]

Agreed, if they can resolve the issue with a firmware update, then it’s certainly preferable to having to do hardware fixes.

A recent post on Synology Community site denies a firmware update is required... in contrast with latest Intel post. [Maybe Synology had secret information... or they are blowing this off... Who knows?]

 

[fredbert]

It may be that Synology had already applied the corrective actions that are part of Intel's instructions for deploying these chips? I noted that Synology said they had followed such 'n' such instructions for use on something or other.

 

[jeyare]

But if there is a physical problem, no way how to solve it by FW update

 

[jeyare]

Intel needs to find a solution for FW update together with all main MB vendors, otherwise Intel will pay a lot for all vendors:
- guarantee cost loss
- already produced machines with these CPUs (not just NASs, laptops, AiO,...), which is waiting in stores, distributors, vendor storages
- cost of all imaginable loss

uff it is not in millions, it is more and more. Then the motivation to find a SW solution is really cheaper for them. Need to wait.

 

[Tedster]

A bit of Karma there after they were just mocking AMD.

 

[Lieven]

This is from my nas DS218+

 

[Telos]

A bit of Karma there after they were just mocking AMD.

Intel's ineptitude continues at a merry pace...

Weakness in Intel chips lets researchers steal encrypted SSH keystrokes

DDIO makes servers faster. It can also allow rogue servers to covertly steal data.

arstechnica.com

 

[BiggPerci]

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/pentium-celeron-n-series-j-series-datasheet-spec-update.pdf

Nov 2019 APL47 / APL50 No fix B1 stepping, Intel you slippery slimy ...