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Applications where the growing list of Intel and AMD security holes are unacceptable. Secure virtualization for example. POWER9 has a slightly lower performanc
by valtz 5y ago
Applications where the growing list of Intel and AMD security holes are unacceptable. Secure virtualization for example.
POWER9 has a slightly lower performance that amd64 (don't know about POWER10), but that is the main value proposition.
It would be interesting though to see what would happen if security researchers got the same cheap access to these platforms as to amd64.
- rrss 5y agoThe article is about IBM Z, not POWER. Both IBM Z and POWER processors are vulnerable to a variety of spectre-style attacks.