Re:Ampere Altra 80-core ARM CPU
by m0zg on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:39PM
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Looks like a company by a bunch of ex-Intel people. How are they doing on Spectre/Meltdown and other bugs caused by the culture of cutting corners?
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The N1 core was designed by Arm Austin. It includes "The traps for EL1 and EL0 cache controls, PSTATE SSBS (Speculative Store Bypass Safe) bit that supports software mitigation for Spectre Variant 4, and the speculation barriers (CSDB, SSBB, PSSBB) instructions..."
Re:Ampere Altra 80-core ARM CPU
by inputError on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:43PM
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It's run by the same lady that made Intel buy McAffee in 2010 for several billion. Years after it was already a dumpster fire. Yeah, I'm staying away from their products.