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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by untog on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:31PM (#16066514)
The short term answer is to patch the servers and swallow the 30% performance cut. Still likely cheaper than dedicated servers.
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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by djsumdog on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:15AM (#16068422)
Which could mean huge sales for Intel, or even AMD, if Amazon, DigitalOcean, Linode and others want to rush to get that lost performance back.

Going to AMD would be incredibly expensive as you'd be replacing nearly everything, but if Intel gets new chips out in a reasonable amount of time, they might actually make a killing on this.

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