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Re:AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction by cc439 on Friday January 05, 2018 @05:44PM (#16082434)
IIRC, first generation Intel Atom CPUs are safe from Spectre due to their nature of being an in-order execution design. Those are the most modern/powerful in-order chips I can think of and now I regret selling the old Dell netbook I had in college.
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Re:AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction by mikestew on Friday January 05, 2018 @06:00PM (#16082550)
I still have my old MSI Wind U100 from 2010-ish. I was lately wondering what to do with it. It’s already running Mint, so I guess I’ll make it my main machine. :-)
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