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Intel seem to be paying a hefty price lately for some security shortcuts they made in hardware compared to AMD (who paid the opportunity cost; security measures
by pixelpoet 7y ago
Intel seem to be paying a hefty price lately for some security shortcuts they made in hardware compared to AMD (who paid the opportunity cost; security measures don't happen by accident, and they do slow you down).
Good security is getting rarer all the time, and therefore expensive; I think a lot of people would be interested in having a small truly secure system (say, for storing your cryptocurrency keys), and as I wrote, I sincerely don't know where to practically begin with this.
Is it commercially available? Concretely speaking, what can I buy, and what software should I run on it?
- robocat 7y ago> Intel seem to be paying a hefty price lately But the gains they made have surely outweighed any current hit? Also I haven’t perceived that much of a hit (although I’m not in the industry): are they selling more CPUs? AMD have an opportunity, but I haven’t seen that translated into sales to hyperscalers or consumers (beyond what they were achieving anyway). Same as Microsoft knowingly for decades chose functionality before security - with the cooperation of plenty of customers that knew better.