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Just a note these chips don't have hardware mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown. The first Intel and AMD chips that will have had the time for them to be imple
by zanny 9y ago
Just a note these chips don't have hardware mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown. The first Intel and AMD chips that will have had the time for them to be implemented to offset the performance losses will be coming out next year (Ice Lake and Zen 2 respectively). That being said, like Ars mentions in the article, AMD chips are in general hit less by the OS patches than Intel ones.
- karavelov 9y agoFor start AMD chips are nor vulnerable to Meltdown, so the impact of mitigations is smaller as it only addresses Spectre.