Re:Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition
by msbarnett on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:44PM
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> All the vulnerabilities. Speculative execution vulnerabilities were found in AMD, just not the meltdown vulnerability.
Just Not Meltdown. Or SPOILER. Or Fallout. Or RIDL. Or ZombieLoad.
You're really underselling the difference between the two. AMD's processors have only shown vulnerability to the issues that are inherent to the nature of speculative execution (Spectre).
Intel, on the other hand, has suffered from no less than 5 or 6 separate disclosures of vulnerabilities from various places in their microarchitecture where they cut corners on process separation in order to gain speed. None of these exploits have been pulled off against AMD, despite many of the papers authors explicitly trying to,
Just Not Meltdown. Or SPOILER. Or Fallout. Or RIDL. Or ZombieLoad.
You're really underselling the difference between the two. AMD's processors have only shown vulnerability to the issues that are inherent to the nature of speculative execution (Spectre).
Intel, on the other hand, has suffered from no less than 5 or 6 separate disclosures of vulnerabilities from various places in their microarchitecture where they cut corners on process separation in order to gain speed. None of these exploits have been pulled off against AMD, despite many of the papers authors explicitly trying to,