At least IntelliJ IDE
The last couple of years for Intel were remembered not least by the fact that its processors found a large number of vulnerabilities. Recently, however, this topic is being remembered less and less.
The latest Intel processors have discovered a problem due to which many programmers are still better off not using these CPUs
Most of the vulnerabilities found concerned almost all generations of Intel CPUs over the past couple of decades, not counting the most recent – Ice Lake. Ice Lake is based on the new Sunny Cove architecture, and their fate as a whole has passed.
However, as it turned out, they also have problems. JetBrains, known for its IntelliJ Idea application, which is a very popular development environment for various programming languages, including Java, has found that on the new Apple MacBook Air laptops and the new Microsoft Surface Pro tablets based on 10-nm Ice Lake CPUs, IntelliJ IDE causes a reboot or a complete failure of the operating system. At the same time, in the case of the MacBook, the software worked on a Linux virtual machine, so the macOS core cannot be the culprit here.
Further testing made it possible to determine that it was not a software error, but rather a certain error in the CPU itself. Moreover, Intel recently updated the Ice Lake microcode, but the problem remained. Apparently, in the IntelliJ IDE, there is a certain sequence of instructions that leads to a failure in the CPU.
At the moment, this means that programmers working in the IntelliJ IDE, for now, should avoid PCs with Ice Lake processors. But later it could be worse since this year Intel should release server CPUs of the same line, which as a result will take place in many servers of different companies. It is hoped that Intel will find a solution to the problem.
