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No, these sorts of faults can occur in any high performance chip. Intel is bearing the brunt only because they're the fastest. But Meltdown also affected an App
by repolfx 8y ago
No, these sorts of faults can occur in any high performance chip. Intel is bearing the brunt only because they're the fastest. But Meltdown also affected an Apple core if I recall correctly and Spectre nailed them all.
This isn't as simple as "Intel/x86 sucks, let's go use SPARC". The causes run much deeper and the necessary fixes may or may not be architecturally elegant or simple.