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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by bo1024 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:58AM (#16062036)
I don't think we even know what the bug is yet, just lots of informed speculation...
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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by userbinator on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:09AM (#16062139)
Ironically, "lots of informed speculation" seems to be exactly what the bug is about. ;-)

The thing is, AMD probably very narrowly just missed this one --- if they did more aggressive speculative execution, they would be the same.

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