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I wonder how much of Intel's long-term perceived lead over AMD in performance is explained by compromising on these security issues that are only in the past fe
by rcthompson 7y ago
I wonder how much of Intel's long-term perceived lead over AMD in performance is explained by compromising on these security issues that are only in the past few years being (known to be) exploited.
- blackflame 7y agoThis might be true in recent history, but Intel's Core architecture had AMD on its heels for several years.
- mantap 7y agoYou have to distinguish between mitigating an issue in software/firmware, and fixing it in hardware. You can't unfab a chip, so the software/firmware mitigation is necessarily crude. The actual performance advantage Intel was getting from "cheating" was most likely small.