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The article is ridiculously biased. It makes absolutely no sense to talk about "moving away from Intel" to anything else because of Spectre. Every modern CPU is
by guhcampos 9y ago
The article is ridiculously biased. It makes absolutely no sense to talk about "moving away from Intel" to anything else because of Spectre. Every modern CPU is vulnerable to this type of attack. The "fix" involves turning off branch prediction, and that will slow down any CPU, from any vendor, of any platform. CPUs which are not affected generally do not take advantage of branch prediction anyways, and that generally makes them less powerful. Why the hell would anyone move from an underpowered Intel chip, spending copious amounts of money for such migration (you don't just change your CPU), and replace it with an even less powerful chilp?
And Meltdown... Well, that's just the FIRST platform specific vulnerability found using the Spectre strategy. There will be more, hell, there are probably more already, just not published yet.
No brand is safe, this is not an Intel bug, it's a bug in Computer Science itself. If anyone wants to profit from it, they'll need more than paid Bloomberg posts, they'll need to rethink how we build processors.