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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by stragies on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:29AM (#24176425)
> What's stopping targeted attacks via custom modifications of ARM or x86 chips?

Nothing, if you have power over the manufacturers. (Usually governments)

But now, with RISC-V, anybody with deep enough pockets to spare a few million can create fake silicon, where you'd need an electron microscope to prove, that you got an "enhanced by TAO" chip.

Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by armitron on Sunday August 16, 2020 @01:53PM (#24179717)
> anybody with deep enough pockets to spare a few million

Which for all intents is ... governments.

So no real difference.