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Sadly it's dead now. In a cruel twist of fate, Intel killed it off shortly before we found out about all the speculative execution attacks and found that everyt
by PeCaN 8y ago
Sadly it's dead now. In a cruel twist of fate, Intel killed it off shortly before we found out about all the speculative execution attacks and found that everything else is horrifically vulnerable.
- TomMarius 8y agoDo you mean that Itanium would have been safe?
- PeCaN 8y agoIt's inherently not vulnerable to the Spectre/Meltdown family of attacks. They rely on speculative, out-of-order execution on modern CPUs, but Itanium is an in-order core with very limited (and software-controlled) speculation. It's actually not vulnerable to a bunch of other attacks as well (e.g. a buffer overflow cannot overwrite the return address on Itanium).