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Re:Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All... by serf on Sunday May 26, 2019 @07:43PM (#20018355)
performance benchmarks go out the window once you realize that a platform is woefully and unfixably insecure.

performance benchmarks mean even less when those security issues are band-aided by performance metric-hurting-workarounds.

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Re:Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All... by davrosthedalek on Sunday May 26, 2019 @08:36PM (#20018588)
If I buy 100k chips for my HPC to do single-tenant processing, performance, and performance/watt are priority one. The vulnerabilities intel has to fight right now are irrelevant for this use case.
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Re:Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All... by gameswithgo on Sunday May 26, 2019 @11:32PM (#20019210)
amd isn’t immune to side channel attacks either. the most recent one we think amd is immune to but i wouldn’t assume in the long run that amd will generally prove to be more resistant to them than intel.
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