Latest AMD processors are on par with INTEL in terms of IPC performance, there is no evidence showing AMD's pipeline design is anything less smart than Intel's.

Latest AMD processors are on par with INTEL in terms of IPC performance, there is no evidence showing AMD's pipeline design is anything less smart than Intel's. AMD processors do not have the issue because they don't speculatively load data across the defined boundary. It is _NOT_ an "in theory" security hole, it is a security hole that managed to lower the computing performance of the entire world due to Intel's market share. Intel designers should of course be blamed for such issues - full price paying customers are now suffering from performance penalises for up to 30% on some workload, when each new generation of Intel processors give you 5-10% performance boost in the last 5-10 years. Sure, the issue is a surprise for everyone, but if they are designing processors to power billions of devices, they are expected and required to be exceptional. Let's make it perfect clear - Intel designers don't have to be smarter, they can give up their market share to AMD. It is a privilege to design chips for the entire world, it is not a right. When things go wrong, they need to admit the mistakes and fix their craps, sadly Intel is putting too much efforts into its PR rubbish ATM.