Re:Microsoft: Haswell and older CPUs are slowed down signifi...
by dogma1138 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:41AM
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Let’s see what happens with AMD.
It’s vulnerable to Spectre even to Variant 2 but they define it as a very low risk what ever that means and only issuing fixes for Variant 1.
It looks like the second variant of Spectre the out of bounds check is the culprit here; if AMD isn’t vulnerable at all it would be great but to me it looks like they are sitting on the fence to wait and see where the exploits go.
It’s vulnerable to Spectre even to Variant 2 but they define it as a very low risk what ever that means and only issuing fixes for Variant 1.
It looks like the second variant of Spectre the out of bounds check is the culprit here; if AMD isn’t vulnerable at all it would be great but to me it looks like they are sitting on the fence to wait and see where the exploits go.