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According to this: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/spectre-and-meltdown-explained-a-comprehensive-guide-for-professionals/ https://www.techrepublic.com/art
by outworlder 7y ago
According to this: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/spectre-and-meltdown-explained-a-comprehensive-guide-for-professionals/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/spectre-and-meltdown-ex...
> Presently, 13 Spectre variants and 14 Meltdown variants have been identified. Initially, AMD processors were thought to be immune to Meltdown, though one variant has been successfully demonstrated on AMD systems.
ONE variant. So technically true. But the situation on the Intel side is far worse.
Intel got way too greedy with their optimizations.
- darkcoderrises 7y agoYeah, but isn't being greedy with optimizations good?
- lifty 7y agoNot when it comes at the expense of security. Perhaps there are contexts where security is not important and this rule does not apply, but it clearly is a problem for CPUs.