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+1. Meltdown and Spectre are distinct vulnerabilities, and Meltdown only affects Intel processors as far as we know.
by 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.