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Meltdown: affects only Intel CPUs, is the 'biggy' short-term, but patches to mitigate it are landing as we speak and patches to eliminate it using trampolines a
by willvarfar 9y ago
Meltdown: affects only Intel CPUs, is the 'biggy' short-term, but patches to mitigate it are landing as we speak and patches to eliminate it using trampolines are described in the paper. So no need to replace your Intel CPUs unless you can't live with the performance drop, but a good reason for buying AMD going forward.
Spectre: hits AMD too. Hits everyone today. Hope for a new arch (bias: I am a Mill CPU dev ;) )
- cjcole 9y ago> bias: I am a Mill CPU dev This has been in the back of my mind during all of this. Can you [0] outline to what extent Mill would or would not be affected by both Spectre and Meltdown? [0] or is anyone from Mill planning to
- agumonkey 9y agopersonally I'm thinking about buying some GreenArray 144 forth cpu
- willvarfar 9y agoWe are immune. Give us a day or two to do a proper assessment and write it up.
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- mpweiher 9y agoVery much looking forward to this!
- xigency 9y agoWhere and when can I buy a Mill CPU? This has been name-dropped in a few threads but best sources say it's been "in development" since 2003 which sounds like vaporware to me.
- sargun 9y agoIs Mill ever going to come out with real hardware that "normal" people can use? Or is it just an R&D project, and focused on selling the IP?