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That must be only Spectre, where did you read Meltdown...? This title is wildly inaccurate!
by chx 9y ago
That must be only Spectre, where did you read Meltdown...? This title is wildly inaccurate!
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- KerrickStaley 9y ago+1. Meltdown and Spectre are distinct vulnerabilities, and Meltdown only affects Intel processors as far as we know.
- Fnoord 9y ago> and Meltdown only affects Intel processors as far as we know. I made a post stating the same, but this is not true [1]: ARM has reported that the majority of their processors are not vulnerable, and published a list of the specific processors that are affected. However, the ARM Cortex-A75 core is affected directly by the Meltdown vulnerability, and cores Cortex-A15, Cortex-A57, and Cortex-A72 are affected by variations of the Meltdown vulnerability. This contradicts some early statements made about the Meltdown vulnerability as being Intel only. A large portion of the current mid-range Android handsets use the Cortex-A53 or Cortex-A55 in an octa-core arrangement and are not affected by either the Meltdown or Specter vulnerability as they don't do out-of-order execution. This includes devices with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 630, Snapdragon 626, Snapdragon 625, and all Snapdragon 4xx processors based on A53 or A55 cores. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerabili... (contains further references)
- deepnotderp 9y agoArm reference designs and Apple too apparently.
- dang 9y agoOk, we've adjusted the title accordingly. The submitted title was "IBM POWER impacted by Meltdown/Spectre", which broke the HN guidlines (please read those before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).