Cloud companies consider Intel rivals after security flaws found

Re:Cloud companies consider Intel rivals after security flaw... by DSMan195276 on Saturday January 13, 2018 @04:15AM (#16138870)

That's not entirely accurate. There are a lot of ARM CPUs that are not vulnerable to Spectre, and that includes a lot of them that are in use in actual devices. For example, my phone happens to use a Cortex-A53, which is not vulnerable. It is however easy to miss this detail from their 'security update' [0] because the table doesn't list CPUs that aren't affected.

Also, I don't believe the single ARM CPU that's vulnerable to meltdown (Cortex-A75) has actually been included in any devices at this point, so for now it is safe to assume any ARM-based device you have is not vulnerable to meltdown.

[0] https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update

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Re:Cloud companies consider Intel rivals after security flaw... by Narishma on Saturday January 13, 2018 @04:37AM (#16138921)

I believe Apple's ARM CPUs are vulnerable to Meltdown.

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Re:Cloud companies consider Intel rivals after security flaw... by colejohnson66 on Saturday January 13, 2018 @05:18AM (#16139010)

Not the Watch though. Apple, as expected, hasn’t said why.

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Re:Cloud companies consider Intel rivals after security flaw... by protomyth on Saturday January 13, 2018 @11:35AM (#16140124)

Probably because its a much simpler core like all the other chips that are immune. It simply doesn't do the the logic that would get the chip in trouble.

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Re:Cloud companies consider Intel rivals after security flaw... by pkaye on Saturday January 13, 2018 @12:29PM (#16140328)

That is because a lot of ARM cores don't have out-of-order or speculation capabilities.

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