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Re:AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server... by duxup on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:46AM (#20645572)
I don't disagree generally.

But anytime there is renewed competition I wonder if the new competitors are better security wise, or just haven't been tested much yet security wise.

I hope AMD is doing better, but I'm not sure how to tell just yet. Things like the speculative execution problems seem to be a general issues inherent to speculative execution, so if AMD is doing it and they become a bigger target I would expect new issues to arise.

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Re:AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server... by barkingcat on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:30PM (#20645982)
There are issues both in general regarding speculative execution, and also Intel Specific errors in their implementation of speculative execution.

The combined issues of these two aspects of the mistake in the theory of speculative execution as well as the implementation is what makes it so bad for Intel vs any one else on the market.

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