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With all of the security issues surrounding Intel CPUs in the last couple of years, not having an Intel processor will be a real advantage for Apple. And compe
by annoyingnoob 6y ago
With all of the security issues surrounding Intel CPUs in the last couple of years, not having an Intel processor will be a real advantage for Apple. And competition is a good thing.
- cmiles74 6y agoA lot of these security issues have lead to fixes that have had a negative impact on performance. There's no way that hasn't bothered Apple.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoIf your impression was that modern ARM CPUs weren't affected, I have some bad news for you: https://wiki.netbsd.org/security/meltdown_spectre/ https://wiki.netbsd.org/security/meltdown_spectre/
- gsnedders 6y agoThat chart doesn't include Apple's implementations, but they were some of the relatively few non-Intel CPUs to be affected by Meltdown as well as Spectre.
- annoyingnoob 6y agoMy gut tells me to trust Apple more than Intel on security. As far as I know there is no perfect security.
- wegs 6y agoThose are kind of fundamental to multicore / multithreaded CPUs, not just Intel. If I have many tasks running on the same CPU, tasks can interact in complex ways. That can leak traces of information, and a clever enough person can pry that tincan open. Not much one can do about it, other than running untrusted tasks in a sandbox with very well-controlled performance. That means slow performance.