[armourenthusiast]

So, when is Intel going to manufacture CPU’s that don’t have this flaw and do not require a patch?

[Zathras]

With this much of a micro architecture change, plus it would most likely be a full mask change plus validation time....
I’d say 1.5 years minimum.

It takes almost 6 months for the wafers to come out of fab with modern submicron process.

[epluribus_2]

When the NSA or Beijing come up with a better back-door.

[Dr. Sivana]

So, when is Intel going to manufacture CPU’s that don’t have this flaw and do not require a patch?

From what I understand of the nature of the problem, it is intrinsic to the architecture of the chips, and removing the vulnerability would make a permanent performance hit. The same intrinsically vulnerable, but performance enhancing design is also found in AMD, ARM and IBM (PowerPC) chips. Maybe an old Itanium or Alpha or MIPS chip would be okay.

No quick fix except maybe for those who are willing to take a BIG performance hit.