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A comment on The Next Vulnerability: Looking Back on Meltdown and Spectre One Year Later.

Re:The Next Vulnerability: Looking Back on Meltdown and Spec... by saagarjha on Saturday February 09, 2019 @09:39AM (#19122466)
> These challenges are going away as chipmakers and innovators collectively leverage open-source to develop better solutions and reduce time-to-market. The open source RISC-V architecture is particularly notable for its availability of unencumbered reference implementations and compiler/software support. As a result, RISC-V greatly reduces the amount of ancillary work required for a processor security project, allowing design teams to move more quickly and focus on areas of innovation – including security.

Is this a thing? I have not heard of anyone working on trying to replace x86 with RISC-V because of Spectre…

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Re:The Next Vulnerability: Looking Back on Meltdown and Spec... by tyingq on Saturday February 09, 2019 @12:58PM (#19123613)
It probably switched a few orders from Intel to AMD, where the performance hit of the Intel patches vs the AMD ones changed the performance/$ enough.

But probably nothing of enough volume to be notable.

Risc-V would be unlikely, since there's not yet real server class silicon.

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