> Presently, 13 Spectre variants and 14 Meltdown variants have been identified. Initially, AMD processors were thought to be immune to Meltdown, though one variant has been successfully demonstrated on AMD systems.
ONE variant. So technically true. But the situation on the Intel side is far worse.
Intel got way too greedy with their optimizations.
Re:Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD
by lifty on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @05:49PM
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Not when it comes at the expense of security. Perhaps there are contexts where security is not important and this rule does not apply, but it clearly is a problem for CPUs.
> Presently, 13 Spectre variants and 14 Meltdown variants have been identified. Initially, AMD processors were thought to be immune to Meltdown, though one variant has been successfully demonstrated on AMD systems.
ONE variant. So technically true. But the situation on the Intel side is far worse.
Intel got way too greedy with their optimizations.