"Performance is what sold those CPUs when security just couldn't. Without the critical mass of revelations recently I doubt security would have been considered

"Performance is what sold those CPUs when security just couldn't. Without the critical mass of revelations recently I doubt security would have been considered too much today. " I meant to respond to this earlier. Yeah, it seems the mainstream acts when it's in their face, there's working exploits, they're dressed up somehow, and there's an immediate action to take. I guess the route to get secure hardware/software architectures is a series of highly-publicized breaks in every component with a Right Thing solution and alternative suppliers that used it. They also move fastest when the damage is high. So there's a recipe for change. Of course, there's possibly some ethical and legal issues in there. ;)