What to do if You want to keep the income from sales rising, while already sold products are good/fast enough and there's no easy way to build significantly better product? Competitive products are getting to the market, and they are better/cheaper/less power-hungry...
Marketing gives the power - let's spread some bullshits about some "new technology" which increases so much appreciated "safety and robustness".
Why do I say so?
Well, MPX has only 4 registers for pointer bounds checking - taking into account that even relatively small program can use hundreds of pointers and hundreds of buffers, it is obvious, that 4 registers can't be used efficiently to protect all of them. Situation looks even worse, when we'll take into account that there can be hundreds of processes running in parallel and each of them uses that hundreds of pointers and buffers.
Conclusion is simple: only selected, most vulnerable portions of code can benefit from this solution...
That still sounds not bad, until we realise that such protection can be implemented in software, and in fact such techniques are already used for potentially voulnerable code.
The problem is, as always, that nobody knows all the cases when part of code should be protected in this way, until a new virus, new attack technique or a new voulnerability is discovered.
In othre words: MPX offers functionality which sound great, but it can't guarantee anything, and it's not new - as pointer bounds checking is already implemented in serious/high quality/deterministic software.
I really whish companies like Tilera will finally stop to affraid of Intel, and start to sell PC motherboards for their CPUs. Unfortunately, since microshit still holds about 56-78% of the PC market (depending on who is making the statistics) that would need a support for 100+ cores on winblows (what is impossible).
...anyway, it seems that I have to spend another few years with intel clones...