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This comment is down-voted as other archs are vulnerable to Spectre/Meltdown not just x86. True. Yet, as of right now Intel as not fixed in silicon all spectre
by acoye 8y ago
This comment is down-voted as other archs are vulnerable to Spectre/Meltdown not just x86. True.
Yet, as of right now Intel as not fixed in silicon all spectre/meltdown issues.
Given the R&D / QA time on a specific arch, I'd bet it is still hardware flawed if they took an of the shelf in house x86 design. Atom based maybe?
So I do not feel confident for a chip that runs the broadband and moreover one that is not auditable by the end user (unlike a main CPU would be).
I would be supper interested in knowing if the reverse engineering show traces of retpolines.
- monocasa 8y agoIt looks strongly like a quark, in which case it's not vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown. That core is fundamentally a 486 and doesn't do the kind of speculation behind these vulnerabilities.