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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by BuildTheRobots on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:49PM (#16066644)
Ah, it must be serious, there's now a branded website [1] for it ;)

I believe the Intel only issue is called "Meltdown" and the second is called "Spectre"; the attack website [1] has details of both.

[1] https://meltdownattack.com/

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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by smaddox on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:46PM (#16067881)
Reading the Meltdown paper [1], it's not clear why I keep seeing people say it's Intel only. The paper says quite clearly that other vendors' processors could be affected:

"Instead, Meltdown exploits side-channel information available on most modern processors, e.g., modern Intel microarchitectures since 2010 and potentially on other CPUs of other vendors."

[1] https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf

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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by pksadiq on Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:08AM (#16068187)
> "Instead, Meltdown exploits side-channel information available on most modern processors, e.g., modern Intel microarchitectures since 2010 and potentially on other CPUs of other vendors."

But their website faq says[0]: every Intel processor which implements out-of-order execution is potentially affected, which is effectively every processor since 1995 (except Intel Itanium and Intel Atom before 2013). .... Currently, we have only verified Meltdown on Intel processors....

[0] https://meltdownattack.com/#faq-systems-meltdown

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